Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
I have a fear of being boring.
It's the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
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.
A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.
When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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.
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.
I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.
Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.
If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.