Act Fearlessly Quotes

“You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.”

“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”

“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”

“Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.”

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”

“Try and fail but don’t fail to try.”

“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.”

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

“The most inspiring person is the one overcoming the fear of doing something, not the person who is excellent at it.”

“If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.”

“Every embarrassment moves you closer to freedom.”

“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

“Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.”

“Those who have the courage to conquer fear are made free, and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it.”

“We can’t be brave without fear.”

“Fear is not a dragon to be slain once, it’s an ocean to be swum daily.”

“If you ask fear if something is going to work, the answer will always be no.”

“Be brave enough to be bad at something new.”

“Fear comes free. Faith takes work.”

“Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.”

“It’s really very simple. Decide that you want it more than you’re afraid of it.”

“The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you’re completely free to try anything.”

“You’re crazy until you’re successful, then you are a genius.”

“When you think about the things that you will regret when you’re 80, they’re almost always the things that you did not do. They’re acts of omission.”

“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.”

“When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.”

“If you are falling, dive.”

“The conquest of fear yields the courage of life.”

“Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT.”

“Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn’t want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you’ll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don’t let it keep you from doing important tasks.”

“Fear depends on time for its strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.”

“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it. That is the quickest and surest way to conquer fear.”

“Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.”

“A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.”

“To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.”

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

“Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.”

“You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.”

“The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.”

“Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope.”

“The happiness you’ll find across all areas of your life - your work, your relationships and everything in between - will positively correlate to your ability to deal with uncertainty.”

“You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.”

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

“The first quality that is needed is audacity.”

“Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.”

“Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.”

“Your first attempt might not be very good, but nobody’s early work is good. There will always be a gap between where you are and where you want to be. And the bridge between that gap is courage.”

“The best view of the game is probably from the stands. But that’s not where the action is. And so you have to decide, do you want a nice view or do you want to be in the thick of it and playing the game?”

“The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.”