Quotes about Anxiety and Fear

Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Fear doesn't need conquering. Fear tells you where the edge is. Fear is a good thing.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun!"

Geralt: "Fear is an illness. If you catch it and you leave it untreated, it can consume you."
Ciri: "How do you treat it?"
Geralt: "You face it."

Scared is good. It means your brain's working right, it means your body's fighting.

Everyone gets scared, kid. Without fear, you can't have courage.

Fear sharpens every blade.

Maybe the thing you're most scared of is exactly what you should do.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Fear, once named, controls no one.

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

It's ok to lose to opponent. It's never okay to lose to fear.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

Never take counsel of your fears.

When you have no fear, the possibilities are endless.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.

Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.

All living things, from complex mammals to single-celled organisms, instinctively respond to danger. Expose a bacterium to a toxic chemical and it will flee, or deploy some other defense mechanism. We're very much the same. When we encounter danger, our hearts start pounding. Our palms start to sweat. These are the signs of the physical and emotional state we call 'fear.'

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

He, who's not scared, has no imagination.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game.

"Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."

It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.

If you know someone's fear, you know them.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Sansa: "You're angry. Sometimes anger makes people do unfortunate things."
Arya: "Sometimes fear makes them do unfortunate things. I'll go with anger."

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

There's one thing that every terrorist knows: fear is the most effective explosive.

All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords.