One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
No one should have to live in fear.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
I’m not at the point where I’d feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I’m the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone’s going to jump out and get me.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
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.
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
