Quotes About Fear

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Opportunity is Everywhere. Think of The Cup. Think of its many Handles. When something comes up that ought to be done but that you don't want to do — DO it. That's a Handle. When something happens that takes you from your planned out Task — have no fear. That's a Handle.

Eliminate the fear of old age by reaching a decision to accept it, not as a handicap, but as a great blessing which carries with it wisdom, self-control, and understanding not known to youth.

Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

An idea stats to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Unless you are perfectly narcissistic and psychopathic—even then—your worst-case scenario is never limited to the loss of only your life.

English "manners" were imposed on the middle class as a way of domesticating them, along with instilling in them the fear of breaking rules and violating social norms.

Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.

My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death.

Mine was the only job you could do if you thought of yourself as risk-hating, risk-aware, and highly ignorant.

For instance, having an intense emotional shock from seeing a snake coming out of my keyboard or a vampire entering my room, followed by a period of soothing safety (with chamomile tea and baroque music) long enough for me to regain control of my emotions, would be beneficial for my health, provided of course that I manage to overcome the snake or vampire after an arduous, hopefully heroic fight and have a picture taken next to the dead predator.

studying courage in textbooks doesn't make you any more courageous than eating cow meat makes you bovine.

minds are in the business of turning history into something smooth and linear, which makes us underestimate randomness. But when we see it, we fear it and overreact. Because of this fear and thirst for order, some human systems, by disrupting the invisible or not so visible logic of things, tend to be exposed to harm from Black Swans and almost never get any benefit. You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

It is often with the most noble intentions that we do so, as we are pressured to "fix" things, so we often blow them up with our fear of randomness and love of smoothness.

Consider that the feeling of safety reached its maximum when the risk was at the highest!

The best slave is someone you overpay and who knows it, terrified of losing his status.

And when you take risks, insults by half-men (small men, those who don't risk anything) are similar to barks by nonhuman animals: you can't feel insulted by a dog.

We have always been crazy but weren't skilled enough to destroy the world. Now we can.