Fear & Worry
341 quotes: 12 by Keith Craft, 329 from other voices.
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- To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.Taylor SwiftSourced
- Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.
- Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business.
- Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
- Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
- Turn your back on fear, and your face to whatever may come.
- Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
- Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
- Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after you.
- We all know individuals who make their lives the exact realization of what they are afraid of.Waldo FrankSourced
- We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.
- We fear the future because we are wasting today.
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- We have to be on our guard against small troubles, which, by encouraging, we are apt to magnify into great ones.
- We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
- We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
- We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
- We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.Akio MoritaSourced
- What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
- What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.
- What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
- What worries you masters you.Haddon W. RobinsonCommonly attributed
- Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
- When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
- When the fear of being a fool is stronger than the hope of being a genius, the status quo thrives.
- When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
- When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
- When you learn to accept fear, you cease making a catastrophe of it. Then it ceases to be your master.
- When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
- Where your fear is, there is your task.
- Work seldom kills a man, but worry does it. Worry is the rust that spoils the knife-blade.John WanamakerSourced
- Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.Mary HemingwayCommonly attributed
- Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.
- Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?Max LucadoCommonly attributed
- Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
- Worry is wasting today's time by cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.
- Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow—it empties today of its strength.
- Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.