Act Fearlessly Quotes
Bold action separates the men who talk from the men who live. The man who moves decisively, without hesitation, claims ground the cautious never touch. This Potential path holds history's boldest quotes on courage and decisive risk. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
“You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“You can’t get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”
“We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.”
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
“Crush your fears with action.”
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
“Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid!”
“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“He who is brave is free.”
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
“Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But they might succeed beyond their wildest dreams.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.”
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
“If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”
“Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?”
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“The fears you run from run to you.”
“If you are going to doubt anything, doubt your doubts.”
“Where fear controls, significant achievement becomes an impossibility.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
“Do what you fear and your fear will disappear.”
“One man with courage is a majority.”
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
“Don’t be afraid to think different and challenge the status quo”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become”
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
“He who risks nothing can gain nothing.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
“I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”
“Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone.”
“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
“Great achievements usually involve great risks.”
“Don’t worry about failures; worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”
“It’s better to attempt something great and fail than to attempt nothing and succeed.”
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
“Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
“To each, there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
“He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“Fear is excitement without the breath.”
“I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
“Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
“The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.”
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
“Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it.”
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
“Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
“Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.”
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose, only then will you learn the game.”
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”
“Courage is like a muscle - we strengthen it by use.”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
“Take risks: If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.”
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it, and eventually the confidence will follow.”
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
“I’ve learned that you can’t let fear stop you from doing what you want”
“Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.”
“There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.”
“Try and fail but don’t fail to try.”
“Fools hate to look like fools. Wise men don’t care.”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
“Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
“It’s easier to live with disappointment than with regret.”
“Success is the child of audacity.”
“All our dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.”
“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
“To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.”
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”
“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have.”
“What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“Success goes to the bold and courageous, not the meek and fearful.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
“You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
“Leap, and the net will appear.”
“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.”
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.”
“You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
“Take the risk or lose the chance.”
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
“Don’t let the fear of failure stop you - let it fuel you”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses to take, choose the bolder.”
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
“There is nothing wrong with being afraid, but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.”
“Face your fears. Allow the fear or anxiety to move through you. Embrace it.”
“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome.”
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
“The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all”
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, certainly I can, and get busy and find out how to do it afterwards.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
“Courage is the greatest of all the virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“What would you do if you were not afraid?”
“Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.”
“The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.”
“More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.”
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is the courage to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.”
“Fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.”
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.”
“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”
“Until you are willing to lose it all; you cannot have it all.”
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
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