Quotes About Fear

As soon as children become able to evaluate themselves, some of them become afraid of challenges. They become afraid of not being smart.

Resumiendo, el talento natural no analiza sus defectos, ni los elimina entrenando o practicando. La mera idea de ser imperfecto es aterradora.

It may feel as though the fixed mindset gave you your ambition, your edge, your individuality. Maybe you fear you'll become a bland cog in the wheel just like everyone else. Ordinary. But opening yourself up to growth makes you more yourself, not less.

Everything I was going through boiled down to fear. Fear of trying and failing. . . . If you go to an audition and don't really try, if you're not really prepared, if you didn't work as hard as you could have and you don't win, you have an excuse. . . . Nothing is harder than saying, 'I gave it my all and it wasn't good enough.

Until we are willing to give ourselves over to life, we always will be possessed by death.

Those who are hiding out in cowardice want company!

Virtue often is used to camouflage cowardice.

The focus on constant testing, which grew out of the reasonable desire to measure and standardize children's accomplishments, has intensified their fear of failure. It is certainly important for children to learn to succeed, but it is just as important for them to learn not to fear failure. When children or adults fear failure, they fear risk. They can't afford to be wrong.

Sheets of sleet hurtled themselves against the windows, clattering like the tapping of devilish fingers upon the glass.

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not so frightening," she said, her eyes filled with terror.

She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.

What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

And there is nothing more terrifying than realizing the one who knows you best loves you least.

That's the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they're all pussies, each and every one of 'em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

Until tonight , she thought death was for grandparents and goldfish.

That's why you leave the windows open. You don't know how to be alone with yourself. And if you block out the world, there you'd be.

This is why America loves Stephen King so much; he keeps us on the edge of our seats until it hurts.

He heard something. I heard it too. Something larger than a squirrel and this is the Stephen King book Gerald's Game and unlike Gerald's wife, whose husband was dead and bad, I have someone to live for: you.

Here goes my heart again—tick tick tick—and I was so afraid of animals that I forgot about the worst of all predators, the most power-hungry predators on this planet: humans.

See, I started to feel old my junior year of college. I was gonna go to Prague and I backed out at the last minute and a lot of my friends, they made me feel old, like I'd missed out on something I could never get back, as if Prague was going out of business. As if that was it, forever, as if you have to be in college to go abroad.

It's a boundaries thing." You're pushing me away on our second date even though I'm Different. Hot. You're afraid of love and it's sad