Quotes About Fear

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real

It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

Don't make decisions based on the fear.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.