Quotes About Fear

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

In danger there is great power.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

No guts, no glory.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.

Security is a kind of death.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.