I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.
I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
The most important thing in a fighter is his mentality. Do you really believe that you're the baddest dude on the planet?
I had to battle the doubts and fears for a while, but I committed to making sure that my strongest emotion was self-belief. Once I did that, I knew I would be OK.
I have discovered that inner search by far is the most uncharted domain and it needs great courage and determination to cut through the dense vegetation of the mind so to speak before arriving at the core.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
I was young and playing against big players and big clubs. In the beginning, I was thinking they were better than me, and maybe I was a bit scared, also.
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
