Quotes About Resilience

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

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

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

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.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

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

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

The gunshot holds no 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.

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.