Dr. Seuss Quotes

I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

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

I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.

Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.

I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

Fear is where the information is.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

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

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.