Seneca the Younger Quotes

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

I used to get butterflies when I'd see big dudes. I don't get butterflies no more.

Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you