Fear Quotes

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It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety. (from Immunity to Change)

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

- James F. Bymes

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing we really have to fear is fearmongering itself.

- Maureen Dowd

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

- John Cage

Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried.

- Robyn Allen

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

That "change makes us uncomfortable" is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and underconsidered half-truths around.... [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we "know" to be present that causes us anxiety. (from Immunity to Change)

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

- Byron Katie

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

- Aristotle

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

- Alan Cohen

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

- Adrienne Rich

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

- Julia Ward Howe

People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.

- Epictetus

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

- Seneca

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

- Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

- Audre Lorde

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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are.

- Pema Chodron

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

- Ann Richards

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

- Beatrix Potter

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

- Leo Tolstoy