I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.
Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.
Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.
The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.
The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.
Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
