#fear

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ↗

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ↗

#doing #fear #motivation #persistence #motivational

Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you. ↗

— Elizabeth Newton

#bravery #christian #fear #monsters #motivational

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#last-breath #morganville-vampires #oliver #rachel-caine #nature

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#reason #nature

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#fearless #love #near-death-experience #self-improvement #spiritual

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#religion #religion

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. ↗

— Stephen King

#writers #writing #life

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #responsibility #violence #vulnerability #life

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. ↗