Coretta Scott King Quotes

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

Courage is fear on its knees.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

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.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.