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Quotes About Fear

British theologian John Henry Newman said, "Fear not that your life will come to an end but that it will never have a beginning.
~ John C. Maxwell
What's ironic is that those who don't have the courage to take risks and those who do, experience the same amount of fear in life. The only difference is that those who don't take chances worry about trivial things.
~ John C. Maxwell
Eleanor Roosevelt acknowledged, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~ John C. Maxwell
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than new solutions, because the new represents the unknown.
~ John C. Maxwell
2—COMPRENDA QUE LA FE ES MÁS FUERTE QUE EL TEMOR
~ John C. Maxwell
First speech? Frightened beyond belief. First board meeting? Scared stiff. I was never good the first time, and I was always scared on top of that.
~ John C. Maxwell
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asserted, "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Don't let your doubts cause your expector to expire.
~ John C. Maxwell
FOCUS LESS ON YOUR FEAR AND MORE ON YOUR DREAMS
~ John C. Maxwell
What's more dangerous than playing big? Never taking a risk.
~ John C. Maxwell
La valentía es la capacidad de desempeñarse correctamente cuando uno está lleno de miedo».
~ John C. Maxwell
Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. To overcome fear and break the cycle, you have to be willing to recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes.
~ John C. Maxwell
Don't look—you might see. Don't listen—you might hear. Don't think—you might learn. Don't make a decision—you might be wrong. Don't walk—you might stumble. Don't run—you might fall. Don't live—you might die. I would like to add one more thought to this depressing list: Don't change—you might grow.
~ John C. Maxwell
Si tememos a la prueba, nunca tendremos la oportunidad de desarrollar el talento.
~ John C. Maxwell
Shakespeare said, "He is not worthy of the honeycomb that shuns the hive because the bees have stings." Don't let your fear keep you from taking small steps in your development. You never know where they might lead.
~ John C. Maxwell
Self-discipline is a quality that is won through practice. Psychologist Joseph Mancusi noted, "Truly successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Real success lies in experiencing fear or aversion and acting in spite of it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Helen Keller said, "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Think
~ John C. Maxwell
I know some people who are afraid to write a business letter because they will encounter and reveal themselves.
~ John Cheever
This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party, even in stir—even franks and rice taste good when you're hungry, even an iron bar feels good to touch, it feels good to sleep. It's like a party even in maximum security and who wants to walk out of a party into something that nobody knows anything at all about?
~ John Cheever
we obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us.
~ John Cheever
Beware you do not damage, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.
~ John Cheever
I have experienced all kinds of foolish melancholy—I've been homesick for countries I've never seen, and longed to be what I couldn't be—but all these moods were trivial compared to my premonition of death.
~ John Cheever
I now see, was the fact that there were so many areas of my emotional life where I was muddled and unresolved and therefore ripe for horrendous embarrassment that I was pointlessly guarded about everything. The lurking fear that I might accidentally give away something I did not want to reveal resulted in blanket self-censorship.
~ John Cleese
And it was this location that provides my second memory. (It must come after the first because in it I am now standing up.) I was bitten by a rabbit. Or rather, I was nibbled by a rabbit, but, because I was such a weedy, namby-pamby little pansy, I reacted as though I'd lost a limb.
~ John Cleese
But perhaps the biggest interruption coming from your inside is caused by your worrying about making a mistake.
~ John Cleese