Quotes about Anxiety and Fear (Page 2)

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.

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.

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.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Worry is like a rocking chair - it keeps you busy, but it does not bring you farther.