F Quotes
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“Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.”
“Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.”
“Fear is healthy. It warns you of danger. What is not healthy is letting fear prevent you from taking calculated risks to achieve your dreams. - The Malwatch”
“Fear is Hell, Love is Heaven.”
“Fear is historically the strongest emotion in economics. Remember FDR in the Great Depression? It's the most famous quote in financial history: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Who ever woke up at four in the morning because they were feeling half?”
“Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.”
Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven
“Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
“Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Fear is incomplete knowledge.”
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
“Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering”
“Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one sense, the easier it is to be "brave."”
“Fear is involuntary, courage is voluntary.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.”
“Fear is just a large shadow with a little spine. I won't let it take you.”
Source: I Fell in Love With Hope
“Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“Fear is just an emotion. It is not true. The only thing that is true is the action you take, regardless.”
Source: Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I
“Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.”
“Fear is just an illusion. The more you try to understand and confront it, the more it fears you.”
“Fear is just another word for ignorance.”
Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“Fear is just doubt, disguised.”
Source: A Memoir of Love
“Fear is just faith in the wrong person.”
“Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.”
Source: The Daisy Chain
“Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.”
“Fear is just part of our DNA and our make-up. By definition, if we've had to be looked after for two years, it means we can't do it on our own and we need other people. That makes trust enormously important and it makes fear massive. Massive fear and trust issues really just defines us. The partner to belief is truth. If we're being fed lies, that's so powerful. And then, when we realize we're being lied to, it's going to make us really angry.”
“Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.”
“Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.”
Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende
“Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.”
“Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.”
“Fear is like a megaphone in your head that pulses aggression and sadness. Hope is the audio gain adjuster. Happiness is the musical algorithm.”
“Fear is like a toddler with a bullhorn. It screams because it doesn’t know how else to get your attention.”
Source: The Inner Remodel: Design A Life That Feels Like Home
“Fear is like a two-year-old throwing a temper tantrum. 'SEE ME! SEE ME!' Love calmly says 'I am here for you always in all ways.”
“Fear is like a weed in a garden. Once you allow it to take root, it spreads, replicating itself, until, eventually, it chokes out all the other life there. Trust, love, kindness – none of those things can ever really bloom in a garden of fear.”
Source: Blooms of Consequence
“Fear is like fire, if you extinguish it while it's small, it won't become an inferno.”
Source: Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
“Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you're hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you... Fear is a friend of exceptional people... You must understand fear so you can manipulate it.”
“Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.”
“Fear is like salt, we must know when to use it and in what quantity.”
Source: Quantraz
“Fear is like the Devil, both grudgingly reveal their ultimately futile ability to halt our Spiritual Growth, and keep us from our Eternal home, as we progress ever nearer to our Perfected Loving Creator.”
“Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.”
“Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it”
“Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand”
“Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.”
“Fear is like your shadow, it always walks with you but has no existence of its own”
Source: chakravyuh The Land of the Paharias
“Fear is location specific. Which is not something people from Bent Tree usually learn because they rarely leave. But if you're not from somewhere rural, gunshots have a different connotation. Any bang-bang in the city and your adrenaline spikes. You lock the door. You pray.
At the Lodges, gunshots are like crickets; you don't hear them every day, but nearly. They are the sound of industry, and industry is money, and money makes you smile.”
Source: Tell Me Something Good
“Fear is loud when your future is close, walk through it like you already know what’s yours.”
“Fear is met and destroyed with courage.”
“Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.”
“Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears”
“Fear is more than a wasted emotion. It's the penultimate set of blinders. If you can't face the truth of your reality, you can't be a part of it, can't control it. You may as well throw in the towel and yield to the whims of anyone with a stronger will.”
Source: Shadowfever