Quotes about fear

To be happy you must eliminate two things: the fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.

When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life.

You're not tired, just scared to begin. Starting feels heavy, but so does regret. One small step is all it takes for life to start moving again.

If you're looking for reasons not to do it, do it. If you're looking for reasons to do it, don't do it.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long if you know how to use it.

Things are not so painful and difficult in themselves, but our weakness and cowardice make them so.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Your silence will not protect you.

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.

When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.