#fear

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#honesty #speaking-your-mind #fearless

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. ↗

— Adam Levin

#fear #misunderstood #betrayal

It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me. ↗

— Michael Grant

#edilio-escobar #fear #michael-grant #sam-temple #sam

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#fear #insanity #sanity #voices #sanity

Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#fear #success #adversity

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the cubits warp For fear to be a king. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#confidence #fear #poetry #self #heroism

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#fear #god #standing-firm #faith

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you! ↗

— Frank Herbert

#self-knowledge #self-knowledge

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#inaction #pessimism #self-fulfilling-prophecy #pessimism

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day. ↗

— Max Brooks

#fight #sun-tzu #zombies