Quotes About Fear

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Nada en este mundo debe ser temido...solo entendido. Ahora es el momento de comprender más, para que podamos temer menos.

Nada de lo que existe en la vida es para ser temido, sino para ser entendido. Ahora es tiempo de entender más, para que podamos temer menos

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: You're just not good enough.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt

The fastest way out of our fear is through it.

I had no idea how to find work I'd love doing. Even the idea of trying felt wildly irresponsible.

This isn't always possible, but train yourself to move toward discomfort. Put yourself in situations that feel scary and intimidating—that's where the figureoutable magic is!

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Attributed to Marie Curie

You never get stronger if you only do easy things. I didn't want fear to calcify in my bones. I refuse to energetically shrink down into a smaller, less capable me. Just because I made a mistake and messed up didn't mean I was going to give up.

You're not broken or weak if you're afraid. You're human.

You might have heard that "fear" is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. Or maybe you roll with the cheeky edition: Fuck Everything and Run. I prefer the more actionable version: Face Everything and Rise.

Fear is not the enemy. Waiting to stop feeling afraid is.

Doing the thing is far easier than the terror we inflict upon ourselves by stressing over it in our heads. The fastest way out of our fear is through it.

Avoidance doesn't extinguish your fear, action does.

Soon I will die, he said, and then what everyone has been so afraid of for so long will have finally happened, and then everyone can rest.

If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over—and then what?

One day it happens: what you have feared all your life, the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.

rien n'est plus triste qu'un retour de l'école à quatre heures de l'après-midi quand c'est déjà la nuit dans la ville et qu'on ne sait pas où l'on va dans la neige, mais on entend les gratte-neige tout près et on se dit qu'ils pourraient nous broyer tout rond

Los perversos narcisistas son los que más miedo les tienen a los demás. Para ellos, todas las personas a las que no consiguen seducir o someter son potencialmente peligrosas.

Since many cutters come from enmeshed families—where identity, family role, and boundary are confused—the task of establishing an independent identity is much more difficult. And if a girl has only a tenuous internal representation of herself to begin with, she may fear that the physical changes wrought by puberty will make her into someone else—a stranger unrecognizable even to herself.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.