Quotes About Fear

Unless you learn to completely accept the possibility of an uncertain outcome, you will try either consciously or unconsciously to avoid any possibility you define as painful.

Or you can learn how to redefine your trading activities in such a way that you truly accept the risk, and you're no longer afraid.

If you are unable to trade without the slightest bit of emotional discomfort (specifically, fear), then you have not learned how to accept the risks inherent in trading. This is a big problem, because to whatever degree you haven't accepted the risk, is the same degree to which you will avoid the risk. Trying to avoid something that is unavoidable will have disastrous effects on your ability to trade successfully.

Those traders who have confidence in their own trades, who trust themselves to do what needs to be done without hesitation, are the ones who become successful. They no longer fear the erratic behavior of the market. They learn to focus on the information that helps them spot opportunities to make a profit, rather than focusing on the information that reinforces their fears.

attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table.

So if you are afraid of being wrong or losing money, it means you will never learn enough to compensate for the negative effects these fears will have on your ability to be objective and your ability to act without hesitation.

The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was not used to feeling intimidated. It was rather his job in life to intimidate others.

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #14: BEING BRAVE MEANS BEING AFRAID AND GOING AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.

So being brave doesn't mean you're not scared, then." "It means you're scared, and you do what you have to do in spite of it.

A core fundamental of human existence is wonder—and its analogue is fear. You can't have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.

I hate to wake up one morning and find out she was killed in a rockslide!

Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.

Wally was so scared he felt a drop of pee drip out. He dropped his snow cone. The wild woman released him and ran toward the concession stand screaming her daughter's name.

Let your fear go. Release it to the wind. Open your soul. Feel the divine.

rage had taken its turn in the driver's seat, and she had lashed out, first at John and then at Grace's coach: "You pointed Grace out to the abductor? What kind of fucking idiot are you?

Emotions are built on layers. Beneath hatred is usually anger; beneath anger is frustration; beneath frustration is hurt; beneath hurt is fear. If you keep expressing your feelings, you will generally move through them in that order. What begins with "I hate you" culminates in "I'm scared. I don't want to lose you, and I don't know what to do about it.

Life is a series of steps into the unknown.

Something I know about seemingly confident people, and especially people who work in large companies, is that often they're more afraid of making a mistake than they are of wanting to do something right.

Sometimes when you're really scared, your amygdala instantly shuts out your higher brain, causing you to act on primitive instinct. Most of the time, however, the amygdala sizes up a situation before making its

Inside every person is a real person. Who is just as afraid or nervous or in need of empathy as anyone else. Make a person feel felt.

That would be like saying, "I can't fix this." Being stuck forever with no way out is a very scary feeling.

locked in self-preservation ("I am threatened and must do anything I can to survive")