210 Quotes About Frightened

Great things are born of common people who understand that to bend to the weight of fear is to crush the dream, but to bend to the weight of the dream is to crush the fear. And it is adhering to the former that keeps them ‘common,’ but it is committing to the latter that renders them entirely ‘uncommon.

If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

So I take a deep breath.Step forward.Let go.10 seconds and I'm trying to breathe9And I'm trying to be brave8But the truth is I'm scared out of my mind7And I have no idea what's waiting for me behind that door6And I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a heart attack5But I can't turn back now4Because there it is3The door is right in front of me2All I have to do is knock1Butthe door flies open first.

I don’ know if we believe that things can’t be done. Rather, I think that we’re too fearful to believe that maybe they can.

He clutched at his chest, trying to find the pendant that hung there, to hold onto the reality of it, the reality of his age and the time in which he was living, but the shadows surrounded him on all sides and the fear grew in his heart and he was only a frightened little boy.

Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when the biggest bad, of all big bads, was gazing at her intently.

The issue is not the fear. Rather, the issue is in succumbing to the fear. For when we do, all of the marvelous possibilities that stand in front of us will never find themselves sitting behind us.

Our vision is narrowed by the fear of what we might see if we dare to look, when what we should fear is what we might miss if we don’t.

The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis of overestimating it.