Quotes About Fear

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.

Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem, the bull, is bigger than all other problems. Of course, I have fear, but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.