Quotes about Anxiety and Fear

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.

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.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

The thing that makes you most uncomfortable, is the thing you need to embrace most.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

I'm strong, because I've been weak.
I'm fearless, because I've been afraid.
I am wise, because I've been foolish.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

You're at peace because you know it's okay to be afraid.

When a man is faced with his own death, he finds the impossible less of a barrier.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted.

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

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

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.