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17 quotes

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Topic·Facing one's fears✕clear

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.2

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

1942

★ 6.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Sports (film) · Coming of age · Sports

Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong.

The Sandlot · 1993

★ 6.9

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!

The Wizard of OZ · 1939

★ 6.5

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind-even if your voice shakes.

1991

★ 6.0

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

1979

★ 5.2

Scientific literature · Psychological literature

Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The Psychology of Science · 1966

★ 5.1

Science fiction

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total Obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Dune · 1965

★ 4.3

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it.

The Matrix · 1999

★ 3.9

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

1960

★ 3.8

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast.

Stanley Goodspeed

The Rock · 1996

★ 3.8

Film · Western (film) · Western

Friend, there's nobody up there shooting back at you. It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger. I won't.

The Shootist · 1976

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

No, we will not die like dogs, we will fight like lions because we are the three amigos!

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo!

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.6

Film · Coming of age (film) · Sports (film) · Coming of age · Sports

Let me tell you something kid. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either cause they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance and you shouldn't let it go by.

The Sandlot · 1993

★ 3.5

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

You have to let it all go, Neo—fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

The Matrix · 1999

★ 2.2

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Is this a breakthrough, that I'm a sailor? I sail? I sail now?

What About Bob? · 1991

★ 2.1