Quotes About Adversity

You know, so often we think we have each step figured out. And then when one thing doesn't go our way, we begin to question, we being to fear what our next step will be.

For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.

Fear is essential for courage.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

Fear: the best way out is through.

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.