Parker Palmer Quotes

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

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.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

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.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Fear is the root of all courage.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.