overcoming fears quotes

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.