Quotes About Fear

A veces lo mejor que puede hacerse con el peligro es correr hacia él

and you have to have fear to have courage.

Better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Better to do it,' Logen whispered under his breath, 'than live with the fear of it.

Fear is like cold water. A little is a fine thing, if fixes you on what counts. But too much will freeze you.

Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He picked up his dress sword, but after a minute

Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He

but it's better to do it—' 'Than to live with the fear of it.

She found she had a great deal less courage altogether than she had smugly supposed while blackmailing investors, or choosing a wig, or pronouncing social death sentences in the salons of Adua. She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste.

No one was safe in Valbeck now. Perhaps no one ever truly was. Perhaps safety was a lie people told themselves so they could carry on.

But fear's a healthy thing, long as it makes you think.

Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

She looked down at them, both sleeping. Ardee on her side, one long-lashed eye closed and her mouth wide open. Harod on his back, tiny hands palm-up as if he was surrendering. So small. So perfect. So vulnerable. She remembered something her father once told her. Being a parent means always being afraid. Afraid for your children. Afraid of your children.

In the end, people don't really care much about being free. They want to be warm and well fed and to not have to worry. In particular, they want to not have to worry about being thrown off a tower for wearing the wrong shoes.

Perhaps that was all courage really was. Being so convinced of one's own importance one came to believe death was something only other people need worry about.

Most of us tend to be truthful until we are punished for it.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Already a minute crack had appeared, and it was clear that when that crack split and widened, out into that utter Blackness would crawl a Gorkling whose eyes would burn red.

Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." —Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812

Fear is recognition of loss of control, and it subsides when control returns," he says.

Fear subsides when you believe that control has returned. Because all too often I would watch Kathleen do a splendid job of controlling her horse, only to find out later that she didn't believe she was in control.

Meditation takes us from survival to creation; from separation to connection; from imbalance to balance; from emergency mode to growth-and-repair mode; and from the limiting emotions of fear, anger, and sadness to the expansive emotions of joy, freedom, and love.

specific link between our emotional states and our heart rhythms. When we have negative emotions (such as anger and fear), our heart rhythms become erratic and disorganized. In contrast, positive emotions (love and joy, for instance) produce highly ordered, coherent patterns that HeartMath researchers refer to as heart coherence.

Instead of obsessing about some traumatic or stressful event that you fear is in your future, based on your experience of the past, obsess about a new, desired experience that you haven't yet embraced emotionally.