Quotes About Fear

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

The fear of not succeeding becomes replaced with the courage to pursue the things that interest you outside of the career you're trying to forge.

Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear or disappointment fuel your drive to be great. Because it will be in those moments of fear that we have to realize we must redefine success and what it means to us.

If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.

There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

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 people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.

We got very lucky. We were successful, but if we weren't, I don't know what I would have done.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

We face paired dangers. The first is that our networks are successfully attacked. The second is that our fear of attack will cause us to destroy what makes the Internet special.

It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the other.'

I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.

I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.

I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.