Quotes About Fear

The hero must want something that is difficult and perhaps even frightening to achieve.

But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is "Do not fear." It's in there over two hundred times.

It's true that while ambition creates fear, it also creates the story.

The other company's site wasn't nearly as beautiful, but it dared to be clear. "If you're worried about a presentation, we can help you hit a grand slam." The truth is I was worried, and they spoke to my internal fear.

fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. — Donald Miller, A Million Miles In a Thousand Years (? Thomas Nelson Inc; 33265th edition, January 1, 2009)

A human brain is designed to experience pleasure when it understands something and fear or resistance when it doesn't.

It's true that while ambition creates fear, it also creates the story. But it's a good trade, because as soon as you point toward a horizon, life no longer feels meaningless.

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STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE SIX: EVERY HUMAN BEING IS TRYING TO AVOID A TRAGIC ENDING.

Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.

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fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

in certain situations, people are two to three times more motivated to make a change to avoid a loss than they are to achieve a gain.2

PERHAPS ONE OF the reasons I've avoided having a clear ambition is that second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose. It's always been this way.

The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is "Do not fear." It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around.

I turned out the light and lay in my bed and thought about the girls I had dated, the fear I have of getting married, and the incredible selfishness from which I navigate my existence.

In the Cheka and the party, Lenin feared, Jewish brains were as much a drawback as an advantage, and the Jews themselves were only too aware of the backlash they might provoke. Lenin took care to see that Trotsky's name was removed from the commission set up to destroy the Russian Orthodox Church.

that, you have to leave your comfort zone.

It is not so much the things we know that terrify us as it is the things we do not know, the things that break all known laws and rules, the things that come upon us unaware and shatter the pleasant dream of our little world.

Older people longed for the world not to change so there would be no cost to themselves.

a line from Donizetti's Anna Bolena flashed through his memory—'If those who judge me are those who have already condemned me, I have no chance.

I've always been afraid of people in possession of what they believe is the truth. They'll do anything to see that the facts are changed and whipped into shape to agree with it.