Fearful Quotes (226 quotes)

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: adversity, anxiety, belief, brain, bravery, chimera, cognition, courage, daydreaming, death, dream, facade, failure, fake, fantasy, fear, fearful, foreshadowing, frightening, future, hate, horror, imagination, irrational, irrational-belief, life, life-events, loss, love, make-believe, natural, nightmare, pain, past, poverty, present, psychology, rational, rational-belief, reality, scary, solitude, suffering, supernatural, superstition, terror, torture

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“Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

tags: actions, advantage, anxious, author, belief, believe, careful, cautious, choices, consequences, create, debate, decisions, desires, devotion, earth, earthly-things, faith, fake, fear, fearful, fiction, forgiveness, happiness, harm, honest, hope, idols, incomplete, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, joy, kindness, life-lessons, love, man, notable, open, own, past, people, pleasures, possessions, quotes, reign, shame, soul, spirit, spirituality, subject, superficial, temporal, things, trophy, trust, trustworthy, wise-words, wishes, woman, worship

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“A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

tags: abuse-of-power, ammunition, authority, black-males, choice, cowardly, cowards, death, fear, fearful, guns, hate, killing, law-enforcement, police, police-state, racism, racist, scared, shooting, trigger, weapons, young

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“Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: apathy, attiude, being-a-man, caring, choices, choose-the-right, christlike, compassion, fearful, fearless, humanity, integrity, living, standing-for-what-it-right

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“I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: afraid, anxiety, beat, beaten, control, crush, defeat, dirt, energy, fear, fearful, fearing, frighten, frightened, petrified, power, road, scare, scared, success, successful-wrestle, tormented, victory

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“Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

tags: act, action, actions, enemy, excel, excellence, faithful, fearful, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, life, love, mediocre, mediocrity, play, reptiles, role, say, shallow, shallow-waters, swim, water, word

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“The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: accomplishment, barriers, challenge, challenges, confidence, confident, defeat, difficulties, faith, faithless, fearful, giants, god, insecure, insecurity, me, myself, obstacles, setbacks, struggles, trials, victories, victory

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“Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: enslavement, fear, fearful, fearing, freedom, intimidate, intimidation, slave, slavery

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“Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

tags: determination, failure, faith, fear, fearful, fearless, knocked-down, mediocrity, tenacity, vision

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“In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anxiety, balance, character, choice, choices, decisions, fear, fear-based-decisions, fearful, growth, living-with-fear, maturity

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“Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care to know before they surrender!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: adverse, adverse-weather, adversity, calamity, care, disaster, disasters, fake, fatal, fear, fearful, fearfulness, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, kill, people, show, showing, surrender, weapon, weapons

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“Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: backwards, blindsighted, closed-off, cyberbullying, false-sense-of-control, fearful, inhumane, insecurity, judgement, lack-of-control, lack-of-humanity, sinner, truth

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“If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration.”
― Julia Woodman, No Paradox - Living Both In and Outside Of the Matrix: Through Consciously Evolving Our Consciousness [ Theory, Exploration, Tools ]

tags: ego, exploration, fear, fearful, knowing-oneself, knowing-who-you-are, knowing-yourself, safe, safety

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“Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: communication, fearful, foolish, fools, quiet, silence

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“Fear spread through the house.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun

tags: author-carla-h-krueger, childhood-fears, fear-of-unknown, fear-quote, fearful, sleeping-with-the-sun

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“It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: attempt, attempting, failure, fear, fearful, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, success, try, try-your-best, trying

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“Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: anger, chaos, cognition, crime, danger, distrust, environment, fear, fearful, fearless, fearlessness, hate, hostility, jail, poverty, prison, psychology, self-defense, trust

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“Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

tags: bondage, captive, fear, fearful, free, freedom, frightened, god, incarcerated, incarceration, liberation, prison, prisoner, walls, warden

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“I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: fear, fearful, hiding, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, isolate, isolation, lock, panic, prison, protect, protection, recluse, retreat, seclude, shelter, withdraw, withdrawn, world

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“One of the easiest ways to show your mercy to the world is to hide your fears from people who are already afraid. Don't kill them alive when you truly claim you love them!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

tags: afraid, don-t-be-afraid, easy, fear, fearful, food-for-thought, fright, frighten, have-mercy, hide, israelmore-ayivor, kill, kill-the-fears, mercy, people, world

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“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

tags: calling, duty, fear, fearful, fearing, god, ignore, ignored, impossible, mission, possible, probable, vision

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“Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: back-up, bold, boldness, brave, bravery, confidence, courage, defeat, determination, determined, fall, fear, fearful, knocked-down, tenacity

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“I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: accept, acceptance, afraid, anxiety, crush, empowered, empowering, fear, fearful, fearing, frighten, frightened, overcome, power, scare, scared, success, successful, victorious, victory

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“Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.”
― Darren Shan, Bec

tags: afraid, fear, fearful, terror

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“Different people think of different versions of 'God' - a loving father or a fearful punishing ghoul. These are incompatible, irreconcilable - and you thought having 'one world religion' or 'one God' would unite humanity?”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner

tags: different-people, fearful, ghoul, god, incompatible, irreconcilable, loving-father, one-god, one-world-religion, punishing, unite-humanity, versions

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“Don't entertain fear; it does not entertain you either; it only scares you!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

tags: afraid, entertain, entertainment, fear, fearful, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, scare, scaring, terrified, terrify

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“Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

tags: afraid, courage, delusional, denial, fear, fearful, fearing, god, jesus

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“Because of fear, most people don’t dream big. Because of fear, even those who dream big do not start working on them. Because of fear, those who start working on their dreams end up quitting too early.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

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