Quotes About Fear

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.

Winners take chances. Like everyone else they fear failing but they refuse to let fear control them.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

When thinking won't cure fear action will.

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.

Fear is faith that it won't work out.

God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?