Quotes About Fear

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. —Steven Pressfield writer

True love takes courage, because you have to offer yourself, everything you are, weaknesses and all. And that is the greatest fear of all because rejection of self from someone you love would be a pain beyond enduring.

preferring to live in the dusty ashes of what he'd once been than to risk the flames

There are no atheists in foxholes. Whoever had said that was right.

I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.

It also occurred to him, like a well-aimed kick to the head, that the idea of watching Rose marry anyone was something he looked forward to about as much as he would castration. Possibly less.

I often think, why did I let her in? Didn't I know she was bad? And I did, of course I did, but I also knew that I couldn't keep that door shut all my life, just because it was dangerous, just because there was a chance of getting hurt.

cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%

Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh By

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh

A gunshot is the loudest sound in the universe. Especially if the bullet is coming at you.

Deer in headlights. Cornered suspect. Mouse in the open, owls circling.

a monster. Morris was exposed and sitting smack in her path. No one really

But as we maneuvered my wolfdog up the stairs, riser by riser, the dark thoughts returned. I'd been targeted. Someone had come for me in the night. And there could only be one explanation. I didn't know how or why. I couldn't fathom the connection. But the truth was as plain as the smashed nails on Cooper's swollen paw. The Zodiac kidnapper was now after me.

Violence against women is not a recent phenomenon. The bones of my sisters litter history and prehistory. The mass grave at Cahokia. The sacred cenote at Chichén Itzá. The Iron Age girl in the bog, hair shorn, blindfolded and leashed. Women are conditioned to be wary. Walk faster at the sound of footsteps. Peek through the hole before opening the door. Stand by the controls in the empty elevator. Fear the dark. Was Primrose simply another marcher in a random parade of female victims?

America was armed to the teeth and no one was safe.

Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

Tory a father isn't supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being said, you terrify me.

Fear is the enemy of our "Why"—our calling, our passion, our mission. It prevents us from taking our unique place in the world and sharing our gifts so that others may benefit from our courageous acts. It becomes our imprisoner and, in some cases, the executioner.

Mara, anything could kill any one of us, today, tomorrow. The Yuuzhan Vong could pull down one of Coruscant's moons, or we could fall out of a window. Life is risk." -Luke Skywalker

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.