Confronting Fears Quotes

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

Find what scares you and do it.

The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

If you're frightened of leprechauns, the best thing to do is to get yourself a little leprechaun outfit and see how big they are. And then you'll go, 'Well I see. That's like bein' frightened of a hampster.'

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.