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Quotes About Fears

If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears.
~ Daymond John
Take care of your dreams. Or your fears will care for them for you.
~ Robin Sharma
As silly as it sounds, I realized, late that night, that other people had feelings and fears and that my interactions with them actually meant something, that I could make them happy or sad in the way that I associated with them. Not only could I make them happy or sad, but I was responsible for the way I interacted with them.
~ Donald Miller
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.
~ Jack Canfield
The horrors of this decision are well known," Kelley wrote, "and it is appalling to realize that an entire war was precipitated because of the severe hysterical stomach cramps and obsessive-compulsive fears of a psychoneurotic who happened to be in a position of command.
~ Unknown
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
~ Jack Kornfield
We grieve for our past traumas and present fears, for all of the feelings we never dared experience consciously.
~ Jack Kornfield
but it's also possible that the wrong kind of attention will lead you into unhealthy fears and attachments about how your body should look.
~ Jack Kornfield
Science is an investigation into reality, how atoms interact and biological systems develop and stars give heat. Myth is also an investigation into reality, but into a reality of a different type: It informs us of the deepest desires and fears of the subconscious mind. The place where we really live.
~ Jack McDevitt
Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.
~ Unknown
She did not know how or why, but now that she understood, now that she had come to a decision, the old fears had drained away.
~ Madeleine Thien
Remember—the battle right now is for the narrative; who gets to frame the story for you? Either it will be God, or someone else. If you are "alarmed," something has drawn your attention away from the story of God. Let your fears, anxieties, anger, or rage alert you that you've been taken hostage; stop and get your bearings.
~ John Eldredge
A hundred years earlier, in Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement. In 1897, the Court, in Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A
~ John Grisham
Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement.
~ John Grisham
Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight, As brilliant and as bright As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes, Lost in a soft amaze I gaze, I gaze
~ John Keats
When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain.
~ John Keats
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
~ Billy Joel
When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
~ Paul Ryan
Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
~ Norman Cousins
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.
~ Unknown
Smile so people won't see your tears. Laugh so no one thinks you have any fears. Sing to make yourself feel free. Sometimes you need a push so you believe.
~ Unknown
Life as a work of art is covered by years of fears, guilt and indecision. But, if we decide to remove those things that do not belong, if we have no doubt as to our capability, we are capable of going forward with the mission that is our destiny. That is the only way to live with honor.
~ Unknown
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
~ Unknown