Quotes about Fear

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

The cure for the fear of failure isn't success. The cure for the fear of failure is failure in small enough doses that we build up an immunity to it.

We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had.

Irrational fears only submit to prayer.

You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it'll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take. But if your dream doesn't scare you, it's too small.

Here is my point. The cure for the fear of failure is not success. It's failure. The cure for the fear of rejection is not acceptance. It's rejection. You've got to be exposed to small quantities of whatever you're afraid of. That's how you build up immunity.

One reason we turn a deaf ear to God is because we're afraid of what He's going to say, but that's because we don't know His heart toward us. You want to hear what He has to say. Trust me. The Song of Songs says, 'His mouth is sweetness itself.