I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything.
Every game, you've got to play with no fear.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.
If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.
Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.
Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.
I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I do 'Hamlet,' it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage, and it will have to be very, very soon because I'm getting a little long in the tooth for it.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!