Quotes About Fear

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

The secret of successful treatment is not to become a perfect, shining star or to learn to be in complete control of your feelings. These strategies are doomed to failure. In contrast, when you accept yourself as an imperfect but eminently lovable human being, and you stop fighting your emotions so strenuously, your fear will often lose its grip over you.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn't aware of his fear.

Your fear is the sharpest definition of your self. You should know it. You should feel it virtually constantly. Fear needs to become your friend, so that you are no longer uncomfortable with it.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason. Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?" "Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.

I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.

THESEUS FEE! FI! FO! FUM! LOOK OUT, HORNHEAD! HERE I COME!

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victimssomeone to protect or fixto bolster their self-esteem.

When you inhabit any of these three roles, youre reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. Youre always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

Playing safe is often the riskiest thing you can do in a career. If you stand still, the odds are overwhelming that the world will leave you behind.

Peetee say slow and careful, "I'm not afraid of you." Halber blink. After min, he ask, "Why not?" "I've been terrified all week. It's time to stop." Don

But by swearing fealty ... you gave me everything." "I saw you need it." My scorn dripped. "This afternoon, by my shame?" "No, my lord. Tonight, by your fear." He sighed. "Now, perhaps, you can allow yourself a friend.

My worldview was very much the product of Adventism. Although our Adventist pioneers courageously challenged the understandings of the churches out of which they came, I grew up fearing that if I questioned what I had been taught I was opening my mind to Satan's deceptions.

Gilgamesh wandered in the wilderness grieving over the death of Enkidu and weeping saying: "Enkidu has died. Must I die too? Must Gilgamesh be like that?" Gilgamesh felt the fear of it in his belly. He said to himself that he would seek the son of Ubartutu, Utnapishtim, he, the only one of men by means of whom he might find out how death could be avoided. He said to himself that he would hasten to him, the dangers of the journey notwithstanding.

Fiver hung onto my arm as if I was the last boat on the Lusitania.

True bravery is all about conquering fear; so in order to be brave you have to be afraid first. You can't have one without the other.

But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

Mais il faut avoir vécu des années dans le rien pour comprendre comment on peut être subitement effrayé par une possibilité.