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Quotes About Resilience

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.
~ Jared Leto
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
~ Jack Lemmon
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
~ Jim Rohn
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
~ Kobo Abe
It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.
~ Chip Kelly
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it
~ Lupe Fiasco
Dry your tears, have no fears.
~ Bob Marley
You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.
~ Kobe Bryant
If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.
~ Heather Brewer
We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.
~ Malala Yousafzai
My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.
~ Lupe Fiasco
It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.
~ Shemar Moore
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It's OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
~ Georges St-Pierre
There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
~ David Gemmell, Dark Moon
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
When you find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you.
~ Greg Plitt
The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.
~ Lilly Singh
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.
~ Jim Butcher
Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.
~ Alex Rodriguez
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
~ Martin Freeman