Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Pine

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Chris Pine

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Al Sharpton

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.

Conor McGregor

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Marianne Williamson

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

Rachel Hunter

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

David Gemmell

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

David Bohm

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Dag Hammarskjold

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Penelope Cruz

I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.

Penelope Cruz

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.

Peter Benchley

I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

Peter Benchley

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

Andy Kindler

My big fear is that I'll put down so many people, I'll have to leave show biz.

Robert Clarke

We're the ones keeping things safe inside, but yet there's still a fear on their part that we're going to terrorize them.

We need to get good team leadership. But, we need the seniors to step it up because they have to fear they could be playing their last game.

April Bloomfield

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Ashley Tisdale

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the 'Hellcats' job, I was like, 'Whoa, this is a sport.'

Ryan Smyth

We didn't fear them. We can play with them.

Billy Graham

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger ...

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

Sathya Baba

Truth has no fear; Untruth shivers at every shadow.

Brittany Snow

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

Ira Sachs

For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

Fulton Oursler

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Duane Michals

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

Yet, the No. 1 fear of Americans is public speaking.

Bernhard Goetz

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

Horace

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Seamus Heaney

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

Steven Millhauser

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

George R. R. Martin

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.