Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it 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.

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

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.

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

No hero is above fear.

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

You cannot be brave without fear.