Quotes About Fear

Yet such authenticity was part of [Sonia Sotomayor's] attraction. And she acknowledged what few other prominent figures revealed: she sometimes felt awkward and out of place. In her speeches, she talked about fighting the fear of missteps and failure. 'Like yourself. Like who you are,' she advised young people trying to make their way in the world.

A week before the Daimler opinion was handed down, in January 2014, [Sonia] Sotomayor told an audience of more than a thousand that to bolster her courage, she often thought about the worst thing that could happen when she undertook a challenging endeavor. She would conclude: 'You know something...so what?

For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe.

Fear and negativity exist outside the now and naturally disappear when we realize that now is the only moment that really exists.

One of the most common blocks to effective directed prayer is the fear of failure.

Seed Thought In Native American tradition, there is an affliction called two-heartedness. A person is two-hearted when they know they have a certain gift and want to use it, but don't bring forth their creativity because they get in their own way by making excuses, thinking that they really don't have the talent, procrastinating, giving in to fear or otherwise failing to follow their heart. A person is also two-hearted when they lie to themselves about their true motivation.

Fear gives way to courage. We are asked to fast from the ego's fearful thinking and fill ourselves instead with faith. The Muslims mark this change with Ramadan, the Jews with Purim, the Catholics with Lent.

Conquering fears, whatever they may be, opens life up—and this life should be as full of different experiences as we can make it. Too many women build fences around themselves, especially as they grow older. They limit themselves, or feel that life has limited them.

Most people simply aren't unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown

You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away.

He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

I feel as though I can only hold it together if I don't worry too much about its falling apart. (288)

It's like I'm carrying around this huge secret that I'm never supposed to tell. But since I don't remember just what I'm supposed to keep secret, I'm afraid I'll tell it by mistake.

she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.

His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he'll be revealed to the world as the hunchbacked, shriveled, ridiculous creature he knows himself to be. And if that happens, he'll disappear.

Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.

each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.

He peered up the stairs. "Want to go first? Or last?" Debbie looked behind her. "Neither, but I suppose if I have to, I'll be first. I don't want something creeping up behind me." "I wish you wouldn't say dumb things like that!" Jeff shouted. He let her climb the stairs first, but he edged up sideways, one eye on the stairs behind them.

What do you want?" Debbie whispered. And a voice whispered back, "Where are my eyes?" Debbie let out a yelp and began shouting, "How should we know? We didn't take your eyes! What do you think you're doing anyway, going around scaring people? You rotten, mean, whatever-you-are!

What if the mummy's hidden in here? What if we bump into it?" "Don't even think like that!" Jeff snapped.

If he didn't go away from here, he'd still have to be here," Debbie said. She gave a little screech. "Oh, no! Don't say things like that, Jeff! You scared me!" "You're the one who said it, not me." "Well, you made me think it!