Karl A. Menninger Quotes

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

The fears you run from run to you.

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.

What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why fear? How can it harm you? Just false conceptions, just conditionings given by the society - that you have to hide, that you have to protect yourself, that you have to be constantly in a fighting mood, that everybody is and enemy, that everybody is against you. Nobody is against you! Even if you feel somebody is against you, he is not against you because everybody is concerned with himself, not with you

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

I just write when fear overtakes me.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

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

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.

Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.