Fear Inaction Quotes

#1. Don't fear failure, fear inaction.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

Robert Greene

#3. When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.

Robin Hobb

#4. Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Mary Shelley

#5. Atrocitus: You believe fear to be the most powerful force in the universe? Fear is inaction. Fear is hiding away. Fear is cowering and begging. Rage is action. Rage is spilling blood. Sinestro: Rage is uncontrollable.

William Irwin

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

Howard Zinn

#7. Inaction breeds fear and doubt. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie, writer and lecturer

Meg Jay

#8. I failed and faltered many times, but I can look back without regret because I was never burdened with the paralysis of fear and inaction.

Diana Nyad

#9. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Johnny Rich

#11. Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

J.B. Priestley

#12. If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Jackie Mason

#13. Few pay attention to the histories and the root pictures words can release. These neglected qualities are there, however, and the poets have always found them a self-delighting source of excitement.

John Ciardi

#14. Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.

Robert Radcliffe

#15. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

Idowu Koyenikan

#17. 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

#18. Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

L. Ron Hubbard

#19. Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Norman Vincent Peale

#20. Not only was Sierra the sweetest, most sensual woman he knew, she f-ing owned him. Even if she didn't know it yet.

Katie Reus

#21. People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.

Felicia Day

#22. Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.

Stasi Eldredge

#23. Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

Wendell Berry

#24. The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

Debasish Mridha

#25. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#26. Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.

Melissa McPhail

#27. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you
want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegia

#28. People who cannot feel punish those who do.

May Sarton