Healthy Fear Quotes:

Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless.

- Les Stroud

topic: Fearless, Challenges, Healthy, Healthy Fear

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

- Dorothy Thompson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Irrational Fear, Have No Fear

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Courage

Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming worry does not mean putting yourself in danger, but in having a calm attitude in dealing with difficulties and accepting what cannot be changed.

- Zelig Pliskin

topic: Attitude, Mean, Worry, Overcoming Worry, Carefree

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Fear, Patriotic, History, Inaugural Address, Inaugural Speech

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

- Pat Paulsen

topic: Fear, Breast Cancer, Men, Inaugural Speech, Sound Bites

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

- Mark Twain

topic: Death, Motivational Sports, Fear, Afraid Of Death, Certain Death

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Humor, Soul, Victory, Inspiration And Motivation, Special Operations

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

- Erik Erikson

source: Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Life, Death, Children, Elders, Children Dying

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

topic: Men, Arena, Credit, Strong Man, Putting Yourself Out There

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.

- Cat Zingano

topic: Cocky, Mma, Healthy, Healthy Fear

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

- Michael Gira

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Stupid, Healthy, Ribs, Healthy Fear

It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.

- Francis Chan

topic: Crazy, Healthy, Trying, Healthy Fear

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

- Christine Lakin

topic: Stupid, School, Parent, Healthy Fear