Building Courage Quotes

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I can't act!

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

Some people think that confidence is something that some people just have. Even though I may look confident strutting in a two-piece on a stage, there are days when I'm so nervous, or I feel like, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do this.'

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

Learning to ask is like flexing a muscle. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. I started by learning how to ask for the small things in my life, and eventually I could make the Big Daunting Asks.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

I was a very shy kid. In 8th grade, I had a teacher who got me into improv.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

When you're shy, the worst thing you can do is go into all these casting rooms and be scrutinized. But with shyness, I think you just have to bite the bullet.

I was a shy kid and acting did bring me out of my shell during high school.

Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.

Throughout my whole teenage years, I had zero confidence and had to build it from the bottom up.

It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.