Quotes About Fear

I certainly don't want to die playing a round of golf. And I don't want to die like Elvis. That's all they remember about him - the most beautiful man on the planet.

You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

To get to the only club in my area you had to cross a really busy road and my mother forbade me from going there.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.

Having been a fighter for 25 years, I know how to handle the fear. The fear is there, but I use it to motivate me.

I want to be a voice to young children and women and people of all ages to go for their dreams, to be resilient and have courage. Don't let fear motivate you. The American Dream says that all things are possible, and I genuinely believe that.

I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

People motivated by fear do not act well.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

The fear of losing motivates me, and that's it.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

You can rule by fear but it's not a great motivation for people.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

Often it's scarier when stuff is weird and when you don't fully understand the motive. Pennywise in 'IT' is very weird.

Because I don't understand what would be someone's motives to want to go into space, where you're possibly going to die, and to try to meet an entity that may or may not be benevolent or want to kill you.

I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.