Quotes about Fear

If I were your enemy, I'd magnify your fears, making them appear insurmountable, intimidating you with enough worries until avoiding them becomes your driving motivation. I would use anxiety to cripple you, to paralyze you, leaving you indecisive, clinging to safety and sameness, always on the defensive because of what might happen. When you hear the word faith, all I'd want you to hear is "unnecessary risk.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. MARTIN LUTHER (1483—1546)

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

May you always do what you are afraid to do.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do