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Quotes About Fear

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last
~ Alan Ladd
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.
~ Alice Cary
You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.
~ Allison Maslan
Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.
~ Billy West
That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
~ Germaine Greer
The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.
~ Gerry Lindgren
I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.
~ Guy Maddin
If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?
~ Jimmy Smits
The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.
~ Robert Ringer
Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.
~ Robin Sharma
There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.
~ Roland Smith
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
~ Saul Williams
I'm a complete coward in real life.
~ Seth Rogen
A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.
~ Shaun McNiff
He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was
~ Spencer Johnson
When you stop being afraid you feel good
~ Spencer Johnson
One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.
~ Takenaka Shigekata
People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.
~ Tom Robbins
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
~ Wally Lamb
If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life.
~ Michael Spinks
I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.
~ Neil Simon