Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all. You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
I’ve had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.
Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It’s scary to be fierce, but you can’t compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things.
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
The basic premise of ‘A Course in Miracles’ is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
To fight fear, act. To increase fear – wait, put off postpone.
Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can’t do that. It’s not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
If you take your fear and mash it into something that’s actually useful, then it doesn’t feel like it wins.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
We in the U.A.E. have no such word as ‘impossible’; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
Maybe it’s stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
We can either be governed by fear – fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border – or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that’s America at its best.
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
You don’t have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won’t get better and that I won’t have time to practice. To be called a ‘jazz musician’ – it’s a big responsibility.
