Top 100 Fear Growth Quotes
#1. Principles can actually grow and overwhelm the things you are afraid of.
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Take a chance. Don't fear change. Life won't hand you your dreams. Every time a door closes or you let go of something, you will find that there is room for new possibilities to enter. You aren't saying goodbye. You are saying hello.
Brittany Burgunder
#3. When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.
Bryant McGill
#4. The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve
Nikki Rowe
#5. We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#6. Insecurity will always be a growth industry. The economy now depends on fear.
Richard Powers
#7. Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it's always in the negative sense.
Rob Liano
#8. To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
Abraham Maslow
#9. These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.
Patrick McGrath
#10. To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears.
Nikki Rowe
#12. You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.
T.A. Sorensen
#13. If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just want you to understand this: You are not to blame. There is nothing you did to make someone hurt you, nor is there anything you could have done differently to prevent or stop it.
Robert Uttaro
#14. Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing, said the Butterfly.
Sabrina Newby
#15. What if i fail?" ... the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.
David Meerman Scott
#16. Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.
Donna Goddard
#17. Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer - anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.
Kat Lahr
#18. The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person. I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail? Who cares if you fail? It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down. If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.
John Rzeznik
#19. Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short lived.
Daron Acemoglu
#20. As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.
Soul Dancer
#23. If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated.
Carlos Wallace
#25. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Abraham H. Maslow
#26. At that moment I knew without a doubt that God himself was speaking to me. He cared. He was there. He came to help even when I could not call out loud or explain my fear in words.
Catherine Lawton
#27. There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
Tim Jackson
#28. The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
Pam Houston
#29. Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place.
Rick Remender
#30. Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.
Alaric Hutchinson
#31. I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.
Richard Rohr
#33. When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."
Gloria Steinem
#34. But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience ... In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.
Jack London
#35. Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#36. What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
Thucydides
#37. The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Bryant McGill
#38. The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul,
Steven Pressfield
#39. Threesomes call us to confront jealousy, insecurity, fear of rejection, and a host of of other dark seeds inside ourselves. Three-ways can be huge growth experiences that encourage us to drop our insecurities and discover how wholly lovable we really are.
Victoria Vantoch
#40. Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. When we think of fear as an acronym meant to support us, we find that fear itself has genius, magic and power in it. We can use any fear that we feel to our advantage in the moment by remembering what FEAR really is: Forgetting Everything is All Right.
Lori Cash Richards
#44. If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.
Ashly Lorenzana
#45. We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.
May Sarton
#46. Life can take so many twists and turns. You can't ever count yourself out. Even if you're really afraid at some point, you can't think that there's no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.
Portia De Rossi
#47. As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life.
Bruce H. Lipton
#48. You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously.
Archibald Marwizi
#49. Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.
Bryant McGill
#50. If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living.
Kate McGahan
#51. It's a rotten world, Miss Millick,' said Mr. Wran, talking at the window. 'Fit for another morbid growth of superstition. It's time the ghosts, or whatever you call them, took over and began a rule of fear, They'd be no worse than men.' ("Smoke Ghost")
Fritz Leiber
#52. The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try.
Rob Liano
#53. Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.
Terri Frey Maxwell
#54. There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.
Rick Warren
#55. Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
Marianne Williamson
#56. Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.
Soul Dancer
#58. Fear melts like ice when we allow love's divine light to shine upon our ignorance.
Soul Dancer
#59. In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object.
Matthew Donnelly
#60. The amount of growth you experience in your life will always be directly proportionate to the amount of love or fear you give.
Habib Sadeghi
#61. One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Abraham H. Maslow
#62. Where your fear is,
there is your task.
C. G. Jung
#63. Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.
Horace Fletcher
#65. I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people ... [a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,
Addy Stevens
#66. Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.
C. G. Jung
#67. The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.
Haruki Murakami
#69. Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people - but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.
Bryant McGill
#70. Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.
Scott Jurek
#71. The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#72. There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#74. We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#75. Grow or Die - Don't let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.
Malti Bhojwani
#76. Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is.
Neale Donald Walsch
#77. Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#78. Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.
Ronald Reagan
#81. It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear ... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
Marilyn Ferguson
#82. It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.
Dannion Brinkley
#83. Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured.
Bryant McGill
#84. Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.
Unknown
#85. Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
Uday Kotak
#86. Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!
Bryant McGill
#87. The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.
Terry Tempest Williams
#88. Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
Bertrand Russell
#89. Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth ... All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.
Spencer W. Kimball
#90. I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#91. The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.
James Patrick McDonald
#92. The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true
Renae A. Sauter
#93. 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
#95. Make a promise to yourself that you will always choose growth over safe and dreams over fear.
Brittany Burgunder
#96. Everyone had something - some fear, some shortcoming, some problem. And some people had multiples in each area. The problems were what made people human beings - they fostered compassion and encouraged growth. What would be the point if everyone was perfect?
Karen McQuestion
#97. Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.
Bryant McGill
#98. When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.
Raphael Zernoff
#99. Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.
Charles F. Glassman
#100. Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
Jack London
