Judy Blume Quotes

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

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

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

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.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

The fears we don’t face become our limits.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.

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

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.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

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

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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?

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

"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."