Fear & Worry
341 quotes: 12 by Keith Craft, 329 from other voices.
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- The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.
- The magic you are looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.
- The man who can overcome small worries is greater than the man who can override great obstacles.
- The more concerned we become over the things we can’t control, the less we will do with the things we can control.
- The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
- The more something scares you, the more you should do it.
- The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.
- The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.William H. BurnhamSourced
- The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.
- The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
- The supreme fall of falls is this, the first doubt of one's self.
- The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.
- The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.Michel de MontaigneSourced
- The truth is, you already know what you want, you’re just scared of looking stupid. Let Them judge. Let Them laugh. Let Them think whatever they want. Just don’t let that be the reason you never go for it.
- The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
- There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
- There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
- There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
- There is great beauty in going through life fearlessly. Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable.
- There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
- There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.
- There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in your expecting evil before it arrives?
- There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
- There's lots of things in which you can find happiness to-day, if you will only stop worrying about to-morrow.
- They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
- Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- Thoughts have consequences. Healing from anxiety requires healthy thinking. Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it's the way you look at it.
- To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand RussellSourced
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.
- To despond is to be ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing thy dwelling.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand RussellSourced
- To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.