Quotes About Fear

threats of the dagger-by-your-bed variety are even better for bloodless control.

few want to jeopardize their jobs and reputation for the sake of change.

have some element of loss aversion.

Now, if you run away, all you need to be is just faster than me, not faster than the animal.

But you are already there; why take more risks?

People are scared of the alternative.

Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain.

When you become rich, the pain of losing your fortune exceeds the emotional gain of getting additional wealth, so you start living under continuous emotional threat.

se você não assumir riscos, não há nada que possa fazer para tornar-se grande, nada.

But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.

Il rifiutarsi al presente, l'isolarsi nel rimpianto d'un passato defunto, vuol dire rifiutarsi di pensare. Mi sembra però ancora più melenso, e ancora più colpevole, l'atteggiamento inverso: cioè il costringere noi stessi ad amare e inseguire tutto quanto di nuovo compare intorno a noi. Questa è ancor più un'offesa contro il vero. Vuol dire aver paura di mostrarci come siamo, cioè stanchi, amari, ormai immobili e vecchi.

Quella sera, la sua faccia e i suoi pochi capelli erano come frustati da un colpo di vento. Aveva occhi spaventati, risoluti e allegri; gli vidi, due o tre volte nella vita, quegli occhi. Erano gli occhi che aveva quando aiutava una persona a scappare, quando c'era un pericolo e qualcuno da portare in salvo.

Existen personas para las que cualquier pequeño viaje o perspectiva de viaje supone aprensión y cansancio; una empresa agotadora. Para otras es un acto simple como sonarse la nariz.

I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread.

He knows you?" said Mae, her frown deepening. "But you didn't call out to him, child. Why not?" "I was too scared to do anything ," said Winnie honestly. Tuck shook his head. "I never thought we'd come to the place where we'd be scaring children," he said.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life.

The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.

I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past. A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.

When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear . . . We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy.