Spencer Johnson Quotes

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7.

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

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

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

When you stop being afraid you feel good

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

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.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

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.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

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

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!

Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.