Quotes about Fear

Fear takes you low, faith takes you high, but love takes you everywhere.

This is one of the greatest breakthroughs in success psychology. You develop the courage you desire by disciplining yourself repeatedly to do the thing you fear until that fear eventually disappears—and it will.

The only real cure for fear or worry is disciplined, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened.

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office. It could be ethnic differences, as it was then, perhaps different amounts of melanin in the skin; different philosophies or religions; or maybe it's drug use, violent crime, economic crisis, school prayer, or "desecrating" (literally, making unholy) the flag. Whatever the problem, the quick fix is to shave a little freedom off the Bill of Rights.

Polybius:     Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.

You know, son, God will give you what you choose. And if you think about that real hard, it'll scare you to death. I don't think you're ready to suffer the consequences of those choices.

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source.

Often we either don't plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.