Quotes About Fear

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.

This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.

Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Worry is a form of fear.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.