Sam Keen Quotes

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.

Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it.

I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

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

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

One of my mantras is if I'm scared to do something, that means that I have to do it.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

Once you slay one fear, you can conquer many fears.

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

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.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.