Quotes About Fear

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

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

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.