Quotes About Fear

The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.

You can believe, for example, that a dead-end job is a career. You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

Realize your dreams and live, not your fears. Life's too short to worry about the opinion of others.

I can laugh because I've known sadness. I am fearless because I have been afraid. And I am wise because I've been foolish before.

Living the dream, not the Nightmare.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Everyday, you have shown how kind and pure your heart is. How beautiful and lively your soul is. I see the beauty of the world through your eyes and in your presence I find all the courage to take on the fear I use to have within.

It terrifies you doesn't it? It scares you to love someone like that. Someone who is so much of a storm. There are moments of quiet, they are rare but most of the time it will be on fire. It'll feel like loving a hurricane.

Some people are not afraid of commitment. They are afraid of committing to someone who won't commit to them.

Halloween: a magical and mysterious holiday all full of surprises in which, amongst treats and tricks, fear and horror turn into joy and play.

There's just something about you that I'm scared to lose because I know I won't find it in anyone else.

All my life I was afraid that I would never find LOVE.... And now that I've Found it, I'm afraid that I will lose it.