Quotes About Fear

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Without that fear, we are all as good as dead.

Because so many people fear speaking in public, many so-called experts tend to focus on simply surviving the experience.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come of it.

Unfortunately, her mother and her tutors were more focused on what Diana referred to as the Dire Warnings: War. Torture. Genocide. Pollution. Bad Grammar.

A new fear began to grip me, almost as powerful as the fear of what could befall us on the mountain: the fear of running out of reading material.

Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared...

I'm scared shitless." Knowing and accepting that a few things were bound to go wrong.

how can fear ruin my experience if I embrace it as an integral part of the experience?

Self-awareness plays a key role in stopping fear and laziness from standing in the way of accepting a reality that must be accepted in order to make the best of a bad situation.

Even most training errors, such as overtraining, originate in the fear of suffering.

Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground? That held no interest for him.

Never knock on Death's door ring the bell and run away Death really hates that

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you.

When you are depressed you feel alone, and that no one is going through quite what you are going through. You are so scared of appearing in any way mad you internalise everything, and you are so scared that people will alienate you further you clam up and don't speak about it, which is a shame, as speaking about it helps.

Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.

That's the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything. So if it catches you smiling, even fake smiling, then - well, that stuff's just not allowed and you know it, so here comes ten tons of counterbalance.

Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.

Life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn't matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. I wanted to be many things in my life. All kinds of things. But if your life is rotten, it will be rotten no matter what you do. The damp rots the whole useless thing...

I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if – for me – it is the price of feeling life, it's a price always worth paying. I am satisfied just to be.

So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.

I don't think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.