Fear & Worry
341 quotes: 12 by Keith Craft, 329 from other voices.
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- Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.Sarah SmileyCommonly attributed
- One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
- Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.Marianne WilliamsonSourced
- Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
- Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
- Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
- Perils pale in the presence of prayer.
- Play what you’ve got and don’t waste time worrying about what you don’t.
- Pray, and let God worry.
- Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
- Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.
- Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
- Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Replace fear with curiosity.
- Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes.
- So, as we read in the previous chapters: Man can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing he is afraid of.
- So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
- So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
- Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
- Sometimes, what we fear the most is what we most need to do.
- Stay in the present. Take it one day at a time. You don’t have grace for tomorrow. You have grace for this day. When you get to tomorrow, there will be grace for that day.
- Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.
- Stop thinking about it. Stop worrying about it. Start doing something about it.
- Stop using what others might think as an excuse to not try.
- Stress happens when something you care about is at stake. It’s not a sign to run away – it’s a sign to step forward.
- Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry to-day’s duties and to-morrow’s anxieties piled on the top of them.
- Suppose God is the God you know Him to be when you are nearest to Him — what an impertinence worry is!
- Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?
- The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
- The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God’s guidance.
- The anxiety of worry is almost always worse than the actual consequences. Stop worrying and start doing.
- The attempt to avoid failure makes failure more likely.
- The beautiful thing about fear is, when you run to it, it runs away.
- The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.George MacDonaldSourced
- The fear of judgment limits what’s possible.
- The fears we don’t face becomes our limits.
- The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.