Quotes About Overcoming

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

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.

Fear not; the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

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.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

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

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

I just write when fear overtakes me.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Fear: the best way out is through.

Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.

When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.