Being Afraid Quotes - Page 10

• being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

  Simone Elkeles

  Challenges, Take A Chance, Chances Are

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Leaving Paradise”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

  Marcus Luttrell

  States, Force, Paralysis

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• Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.

  Simon Pegg

  Mean, Self, Play

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• There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

  Nick Hornby

  Fear, Night, Thinking

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

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  Ram Dass

  War, Poverty, Cures

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

  John Abbott

  Wise, Education, Knowledge

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• When you stop being afraid you feel good

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Feel Good

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.30, Penguin

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• Sometimes you just have to turn the page to realize there's more to your book of life than the page you're stuck on. Stop being afraid to move on. Close this chapter of hurt, and never re-read it. It's time to get what your life deserves, and move on from the things that don't deserve you. Don't try to fix what's been broken in your past, let your future create something better.

  Trent Shelton

  Hurt, Moving, Book

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Jun 29, 2016

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• Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Revenge, Men, Desire

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

  Rita Wilson

  Emotional, Fearless, Challenges

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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Grief, Yawning

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Religious, Poverty, Dread

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• The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

  Royal Robbins

  Errors, Climbing, Self

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  There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

  Emma Watson

  Strong Women, Overcoming, Have Faith

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• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

  Debbi Fields

  Business, Successful, Entrepreneur

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• Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

  Eve Ensler

  Far Away, Coming Back

  Eve Ensler (2010). “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”, p.139, Villard

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• Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

  Michael Crichton

  Cancer, Kids, Elephants

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.219, Vintage

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  Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.

  Donald Trump

  Being Yourself, Unique, Best Self

  Donald Trump (2010). “Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life”, p.44, Vanguard Press

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• Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

  Knute Rockne

  Mean, Champion, Winner

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• There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Night, Devil

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• If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Grief, Way

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• Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

  Eve Ensler

  Life, Strong, Stars

  "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World". Book by Eve Ensler, 2010.

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• No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Athlete, Thinking

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• They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

  Stephen King

  Fear, Nice, Dark

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1452, Anchor

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• The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

  Dale Carnegie

  Way, Busy, Defeat

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