Top 1200 Overcoming Fear Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

First of all, 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.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.

Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

You can't play with fear in football. There is a lot of respect - you have respect for everybody, the ones on top and the bottom - but never fear.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear widens the knowing-doing gap. Don’t use it.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Worry is the child of Fear -- if you kill out Fear, Worry will die for want of nourishment.

Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

But watching characters that are awkward, overcoming their own obstacles and finding some of the hardest criminals in the world is interesting. We like watching losers win because we're all basically losers.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.