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Quotes About Fears

look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it's reality. It breaks my heart to see so many potentially powerful human beings stuck in a story about why they can't be extraordinary, professionally and personally. You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.
~ Robin Sharma
You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.
~ Robin Sharma
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man ... a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination.
~ Rod Serling
Henceforth he would project himself into opponents' minds and comprehend their fears and anxieties instead of blowing them up into all-powerful bugaboos, giving him courage when others quailed.
~ Ron Chernow
empathy was the key. Understand their motives, their circumstances, their goals, their aims, their fears, their needs. Think like them. See what they see. Be them.
~ Lee Child
Griezman said, "Not literally, of course. He's obsessed about certain things, that's all. No doubt rooted in racist and xenophobic pathologies, and worsened by irrational fears. But otherwise he's quite normal.
~ Lee Child
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
~ Les Brown
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.
~ Les Brown
For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.
~ Jordan Peele
The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.
~ Caroline Myss
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
~ Albert Einstein
We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col­lab­o­ra­tive act.
~ Alberto Manguel
Fears and worries originate in the mind. Love and joy originate from the soul.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Gymnasts develop fears about certain moves and get hang-ups about doing routines at meets or anxiety about certain rivals who can psych them out.
~ Donna Freitas
And thus woman has been definitely established as the Other. Western mythology itself was a patriarchal construct; through its portrayal of woman as the ambivalent projection of man's fears and desires, not as her own independent self, mythology translates the message that woman must respect a 'natural order of things' or risk responsibility for human chaos and destruction.
~ Doris Meyer
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge." —Rod Serling, excerpted from The Twilight Zone, opening narration, season one
~ Douglas E. Richards
Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.
~ Douglas E. Winter
The problem is that horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. Horror is not a kind of fiction. It's a progressive form of fiction that continually evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.
~ Douglas E. Winter
People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks
~ Dutch Ruppersberger
The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
~ Epicurus
In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.
~ Joan Frances Casey
I sought him whom my Soul did Love, With tears I sought him earnestly; He bow'd his ear down from Above, In vain I did not seek or cry. My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good, He in his Bottle put my tears, My smarting wounds washed in his blood, And banished thence my Doubts and fears.
~ Anne Bradstreet