Fear & Worry
341 quotes: 12 by Keith Craft, 329 from other voices.
Other voices on Fear & Worry
- Is any man afraid of change? Why, what can take place without change?
- It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but only empties to-day of its strength.
- It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear.
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
- It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthful, worry is rust upon the blade. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.
- It is not work that kills men; it is worry... Worry is rust upon the blade.
- It is okay to not have the answer. One of the bravest things you can do is boldly embrace the unknown, accept your fear and still continue to move forward.
- It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
- It's okay to be scared. Being scared means you're about to do something really, really brave.
- Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
- [L]ook evil in the face; walk up to it, and you will find it less than you imagined, and often you will not find it at all; for it will recede as you advance.
- Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
- Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
- Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
- Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
- Let us preserve our sense of humor--for it will guard us against many a fear, many a folly, many a delusion.
- Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
- Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
- Live in your hopes and not in your fears.
- Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what’s even scarier? Regret.
- Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
- Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
- Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
- Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.
- Never borrow trouble. If the evil is not to come, it is useless, and so much waste; if it is to come, best keep all your strength to meet it.
- Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
- Never let your fear decide your fate.
- No greater hell than to be a slave to fear.
- No Man may hope Return from all he sows. Forbear not Planting Corn for Fear of Crows.
- No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand FochSourced
- Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.Marie CurieSourced
- Nothing in life matters quite as much as you think it does while you are thinking about it.
- Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
- Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
- Nothing is terrible except fear itself.Francis BaconSourced