Quotes About Fear

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you think you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? Genre conventions .

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

When just starting out on a new journey it's only natural to feel vulnerable. After all it may seem that you have much to lose. But may I remind you that never again at any other point in the same journey will you have so much to gain.

happy. Which means follow your dreams, face your fears, and every single day move forward.

There has perhaps been no lie greater than the one told of a devil awaiting sinners in hell. Any good it may have done in preventing people from sinning has surely been offset by the mass manipulation it makes possible, extracting subservience from what become confused, unhappy lives filled with regret, guilt, and fear.

On the occasions fear or worry overcome you, relax! I used to panic whenever negativity coursed through my mind, thinking I was doomed because of this principle of thoughts become things, but I discovered something long ago when I thought I was being fired at PW: while there are indeed times in all our lives when we simply cannot stop our runaway trains of fear or negativity, at all times we are free and able to simultaneously start a new train running.

Fear, shame, and worthlessness have only the power we give them. This book is about hope, love, and grace and how they work toward the same ends.

He was scared and he felt vulnerable and the last thing on earth he wanted was to try to make friends with these strangers. He wished with all his heart that Joyce were here with him. After all, it was always easier to meet new people if there were two of you. It gave you confidence and made you feel at ease. Look, it said to the world, I already have one friend so I can't be all that bad. And Joyce always made him feel like his best self anyway, so there would be no resisting him.

Hubert did not want to go into this room. He was scared and he felt vulnerable and the last think on earth he wanted was to try to make friends with these strangers. He wished with all his heart that Joyce were here with him. After all, it was always easier to meet new people if there were two of you. It gave you confidence and made you feel at ease. Look, it said to the world, I already have one friend so I can't be all that bad.

Many of us are living contradictions. I've done some empirical probing in my own life and have determined this to be true. We want God to speak to us, but we're petrified he'll call us to something uncomfortable, or difficult, or worse . . . something uncool.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

He put the x-ray up on the light screen: The tumor was a large white circle in the middle of the picture. It looked like a headlight coming straight at me, full-speed ahead.

The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most.

It was the worst kind of fear there was in sports, the kind where you didn't give yourself a chance to do something right--even something great--because you were terrified you might do something wrong.

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death—the fear of not reaching the top.

It's one thing to be poor. It's another thing to be poor and feel unsafe. One could say crime is the insult to the injury. But, it's really the extra injury to the injury.

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.

All hate is just fear. All fear is just insecurity

You remember that friend of mine, the Doctor?" Ali nodded. "Well, he's an expert on monsters. Sorts 'em out all the time." "Really?" "Really. He gives THEM nightmares.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.