Fear Quotes - Page 76

Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.