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Fear Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

66 Fear quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Craig D. Lounsbrough says that standing still when everything feels lost is the realm of the coward, while the hero meets fear eye‑to‑eye. He points out that panic fuels running, whereas thoughtful direction drives us forward, and that building fortresses out of defense mechanisms isolates us. By treating fear like a mouse caught in a bear trap, we can learn to release its grip.

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“If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.”

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“If I am risk adverse, my growth will be reversed.”

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“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.”

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“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.”

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“The impossible is the rumor of the fearful.”

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“Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.”

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“Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.”

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“Hope refuses the constraints of our fear.”

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“It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the…

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“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.”

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“Resolving our fear occurs by walking into that which we fear rather than thinking about how we resolve our fears without the…

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“I would like to say that what I fear are the challenges that stand in front of me, when in reality what…

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“It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to…

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“Our fears are groomed for us and implanted within us by others who did the same for themselves...”

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“A great man beats his fears into submission, while everyone else around him is beaten into submission.”

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“To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the…

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“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to…

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“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more…

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“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license…

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“The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen.…

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“To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that…

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“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the…

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“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what…

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“One man lives out his life beating his fears into submission, while another lives out his life letting his fears beat him…

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“Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.”

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“It is not the absence of hope. Rather, it is the absence of our faith in hope.”

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“The man who waits to know everything is the man who never does anything.”

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“The size of any obstacle is measured by the yardstick of our fear.”

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“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.”

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“Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”

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“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely…

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“Bravery is to acknowledge that we are cowards who have committed ourselves to keeping our cowardice on a very short leash.”

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“Our vision is narrowed by the fear of what we might see if we dare to look, when what we should fear…

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“Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.”

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“My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the…

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“If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the…

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“Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.”

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“Fear is something akin to catching a mouse in a bear trap. We mistakenly thought that the thing that we were trying…

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“To love is to risk. To not love is also to risk. Yet when it comes to love, the greatest risk is incurred when…

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“More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.”

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“The service of self terminates at our own death.”

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“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.”

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“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”

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“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate…

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“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.”

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“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of…

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“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.”

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“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us…

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“The measure of who you are will always exceed measurement.”

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“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So…

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“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it…

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“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.”

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