Quotes About Fear

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" was the motto of the King's Guard in ancient Greece.

If I had only known then how you make it easy to conquer fear, the paralyzing fear of an audience, I wouldn't have lost these past five years." The man who spoke these revealing

Practise, practise, PRACTISE in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practise in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Tanto como anhelamos la aprobación, tememos la condena

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

She stooped for a stone and dropped it down. 'Fancy being where that is now,' she said, peering into the blackness; 'fancy going round and round like a mouse in a pail, clutching at the slimy sides, with the water filling your mouth, and looking up to the little patch of sky above.' 'You had better come in,' said Benson, very quietly. 'You are developing a taste for the morbid and horrible.' (The Well)

Ooooh, Kate groans, Kate herself now. I'm so afraid. I know. What am I going to do? You mean right now? Yes. We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home. Is everything going to be all right? Yes. Tell me. Say it. Everything is going to be all right.

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

The name of the enemy is death, he said, grinning and shoving his hands in his pockets. Not the death of dying but the living death. The

In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death.

That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

what are out stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

People waste their happiness—that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

All the dead bolts and pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

People waste their happiness...Everyone's so scared to be happy.

AFTER I DELIVERED VELVET BACK to the farmhouse that night, I entered the condo and walked over to my Minotauromachia. And as I stood before it, it was crystal clear to me that the terrible monster was doomed in the face of the powerful little girl.

The biggest bigots were the ones who felt most directly threatened by the underclass. The ones who felt the most moved in on.

What are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

I wrapped my arms around my chest. I'd read somewhere that that was an instinct left over from caveman days: protect your heart.

Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me