Peter McWilliams Fear Quotations

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

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

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

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

..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.

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

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.

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

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!"

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

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