When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.'

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

In real life I have conquered my worst fears by fighting and beating bigger wrestlers in dangal. So I am not afraid of anything.

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

By letting go of my fears and concerns, I've gained so much happiness and freedom. With that freedom I've also gained confidence.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

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

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't affect the conversations I have in my head about life, and worries and fears and insecurities.

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.

When I was 18, I was working at Luton airport and spending all my money on going out and buying tops. I had no fears, no responsibilities.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

I have a huge fear of birds, but I truly believe in facing your fears head-on, so, I now have two sparrows tattooed on the back of my arms.

I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

If you are making a film for the first time, you have all the problems and fears. Yet, you have the freedom that you will never get in life.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.

When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

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