I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
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.
Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Don't do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That's the mentality. Even if you're scared, just do it.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
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.
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.
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
Fear created the first gods in the world.
No, no, Gary Neville was a fantastic full back. He would genuinely get to the by-line. He played without fear. He was a leader.
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parking spaces. I don't like to step on the blue lines. I always step over them. I don't know what the deal is. I don't know if it's a fear of injury, or a disrespectful thing, or if I just don't want to think about something like that happening.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
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.