The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
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.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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.
Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
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.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
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.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Fear nothing; attack everything.
Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The sense of crisis is everything for Trump - even if it's largely invented. His depiction of darkness justifies his candidacy, the need to violently shake the system. His ability to conjure fear is what distinguished him from all those career pols he has vanquished. And it suits his ego.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.