210 Quotes About Frightened

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.

A journey from ‘where I am’ to ‘where I am’ is cowardice thinking that it’s going somewhere.

Denial is a state of mind with no legs. Therefore, while it works very hard to convince me that I’ve run far away from that which frightens me, it can’t take me anywhere except where I’m at.

It is fair to assume that the world is afraid of you

Fear will fuel my journey or it will cause me to forsake my journey. And it is utterly amazing that the self-same thing can build me or destroy me.

More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.

I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.