Peter McWilliams Quotes About Fear

Quotes about: Fear

• To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Overcoming, Action

• Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Believe, Writing

• Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Heart, Indulge

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

• ..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Anxiety, Feelings

• Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

  Peter McWilliams

  Giving Up, Fear, People

• The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Differences, Labels

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

• The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Boys, Emotional

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

• Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

  Peter McWilliams

  Running, Fear, Over You

• Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Moved

• I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Nervous, Breakdown

• Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

  Peter McWilliams

  Courage, Fear, Belief

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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