If you don’t find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don’t have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don’t learn how to control your fear.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere – and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
Embrace the fear and go for it. That’s what I do. I don’t run from it – I embrace the fear.
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Americans fear losing control if they’re forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.
He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, ‘Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.’
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
God helps those who fear Him.
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that – given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind – chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.’
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
Sailing is the closest I can get to nature – it’s adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.
Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
I play with a fear of letting people down. That’s what motivates me.
Fear is unnecessary.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
I’ve done plenty of daredeviling – from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
I’m always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don’t get too comfortable.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.
If we’re not careful, we become that which we most fear.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
In the ring, I never really knew fear.
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
Government should fear the people, not the other way around.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.
I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
