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“Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”

Ifs Faces Violence Abuse Scared Courageous Survivor Domestic Violence Face Your Fears

Author:Laura Davies

“Facing your fears robs them of their power.”

Inspirational Fear Emotion Power Strength Wise Words Scared Overcoming Fear Face Your Fears Facing Fear

Author:Mark Burnett

“I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.”

Heart Ideas Eye Felt Violence Broken Anxiety Weak Blind Scared Come Up Worried No Idea Leap Domestic Violence Heart Broke

Author:Bob Casey, Jr.

“I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.”

Knows Feels Kind Persons Long Use Bigs Would Be House Fear Safe Scared Get Up Bathroom Me Alone Hallways

Author:Britney Spears

“I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.”

Way Needs Persons Two Real Body Sleep White Week Cold Personality Bed Lays Saint Scared Superiors Hated Conformity Yellow Complaints Non Conformity Unbreakable Two Of Me

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.”

People Life Inspiration Faces Path Criticism Scared Paralyzed

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.”

Way Life Needs Enough Inspiration Steps Path Tools Brave Scared Enthusiasm Deception Be Brave

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.”

Children Fighting Saws Scared Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.”

Ideas Interesting Scared Conclusion Logical

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.”

People Firsts Bigs America Film Church Audience Laughing Quiet First Time Scared Britain Mainstream Shout Out

Author:Danny Boyle

“You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.”

Done Scared Mess Legacy Coming Back Jordan

Author:Ice Cube

“I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.”

Believe Able Speak Media Scared Supposed To Be Olympics Typical Decipher

Author:Carl Lewis

“I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.”

Bigs Imagine Scared Runners Spiders

Author:Usain Bolt

“I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.”

Ifs Trying Littles Has Beens Remember Bits Little Bit Vote Scared Kill Me Register Being Scared

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out.”

People Ifs Watches Week Fans Scared Scary Mood Creeps Really Scary Pedigree

Author:John Landis

“The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it's so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don't want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here's a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do.”

People World Want Needs Wells Kind Persons Doe Use Simple Computer Phones Scared Complexity Frightening Iphone Macs Compatible Iphone 4s

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Believe Today Pain Differences Hell Adults Built Scared Tales Burning Fairy Fairy Tale Whales Burning In Hell

Author:Bill Maher

“I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.”

Ifs Knows Play Scared Theatre

Author:Alan Cumming

“Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.”

Guy Hell Kings Scared

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“There's nothing I'm scared of in football.”

Football Scared

Author:Thierry Henry

“I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them”

Ifs Believe Happens Certain Cases Don't Believe Scared Superstitions

Author:Michael Owen

“I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.”

Firsts Remember Three Ability Doubt Months Baseball Seasons Scared Hitting Three Months Rookies Baseball Season

Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.”

Want Firsts Made Stills Play Parent Music Rocks Dangerous Guitar Scared Attraction Hotel Really Amazing Scotty

Author:Roger McGuinn

“I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.”

Knows Seems Language Mouths Scared Noses Coming Out French Language

Author:P.D.Q. Bach

“My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.”

Problem Might Struggle Balls Fingers Scared Opposition Pitching Bowlers

Author:Shane Warne

“I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.”

Feels Moving Speak Scared

Author:Pina Bausch

“If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.”

Ifs Lost Scared Encouraging Verge Arms Race

Author:John Foster Dulles

“Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts.”

People Ifs Giving Long Running Term Produce Scared Advertising Long Term Agency Frightened Contracts Powerless Advertising Agencies

Author:David Ogilvy

“I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.”

Thinking I Can Would Be Enjoy Scared Impression Relate Comparison Loner Shane

Author:Katherine Moennig

“I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well.”

Wells Scared Excited Owners Juice

Author:Roger Staubach

“Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.”

Want Sometimes Would Be Artist Courses Causes Sleep Mom Musician Scared My Mom Worried

Author:Chantal Kreviazuk

“I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.”

Thinking Littles Levels Wonder Knowing Mystery Balance Scared Best Things Not Knowing

Author:Willem Dafoe

“Sit tall in the saddle and hold your head up high. Keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky, and live like you ain't afraid to die. Don't be scared...just enjoy the ride.”

Eye Dies Enjoy Sky Like You Scared Fixed Tall Trails Heads Up Saddles

Author:Chris LeDoux

“So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.”

Thinking Feels May Scared Work Out Mindset Tendencies Qualifications

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.”

People Feels Kind Sometimes Bigs Challenges Player Comfortable Garden Series Scared Miniatures Big Challenges

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.”

Way Home Might Felt Bits Battle Safe Scared Despite Aviation Combat Bloody Picnics Way Home

Author:Colin S. Gray

“It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang, but by the time I got to Nam, it scared the piss out of a lot of guys just to fly the damn jets at full speed. Let alone do it in combat.”

Mean War Guy Hell Exciting Scared Speed Flying Faster Planes Damn Aviation Combat Jet Mustang

Author:Robin Olds

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

Feels Firsts Bits First Time Starting Scared Imposter

Author:Sam Altman

“My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly in my head. That it was just…a fear.”

Said Father Causes Voice Beats Scared Ass

Author:Nelly

“I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).”

Giving Firsts Give Me Scared Hockey Bats Equipment Kevin Pads

Author:Roger Clemens

“The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.”

Knows Enough Differences Scared Butterfly Speakers Formation Novices

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I'm a really claustrophobic person to begin with. I hate elevators, especially crammed elevators. I get really scared. So I think that it's very definitely scary when girls are all around me and I can't go anywhere. At the same time, I guess I got to get used to it, you know what I mean?”

Thinking Knows Mean Persons I Can Used Hate Girl I Hate Scared Scary Get Real Elevators

Author:Justin Bieber

“Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, When we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. JUST DO IT.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Should Might Able Mouths Scared Scream Just Do It

Author:Barry Sanders

“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.”

Ifs Thinking Turns Left Imagination My Own Huge Solitude Scared Active Devices Being Alone

Author:Claire Danes

“But I'm more scared of not writing.”

Writing Scared Autonomy

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.”

Firsts America First Time Scared Traveled

Author:Carmen Laforet

“Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.”

Feels Forget Stupid Mouths Scared Worthy Tennis

Author:Jennifer Capriati

“I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.”

Sometimes Might Magic Fashion Amount Scared Exposure

Author:Raf Simons

“[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.”

People Feelings Young Natural Music Fire Cat Jazz Scared Technique Like Me Jazz Music Natural Feelings

Author:Freddie Hubbard

“Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.”

Knows Running Bears Scared Fearless Unbearable Always Running Running Scared

Book:One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

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