Philippe Petit Quotes

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

A warrior never worries about his fear.

Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasn't allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.