Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter McWilliams

The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

Peter McWilliams

The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

Peter McWilliams

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Peter McWilliams

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Persis Khambatta

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

Paulo Coelho

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

Peter Shaffer

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

Nathaniel Branden

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

Nathaniel Branden

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

Jimmy Buffett

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

George MacDonald

Fear is faithlessness.

George MacDonald

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

George Lois

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Elizabeth Goudge

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.

John Bunyan

He that is down needs fear no fall.

Joe Abercrombie

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

Leo Tolstoy

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Lady Gaga

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...

Joyce Meyer

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

Joyce Meyer

Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory

Joseph Campbell

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

Peace Pilgrim

we tend to attract the things we fear.

Peace Pilgrim

Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.

Peter Travers

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

Pema Chodron

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

Peter S. Beagle

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Pearl White

I have actually gotten to like fear ...

Phyllis Bottome

to everything there is an end - except fear.

Philip Pullman

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.