Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Maslow

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Abraham Maslow

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

The Democrats have nothing to cheer but fear itself.

Dan Quisenberry

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Anne Hutchinson

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

Charlie Rose

I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether some of the fears of last year will be realized this year. There is strong reason to worry.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Radhanath Swami

Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?

Cornelius Nepos

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Catherine Hicks

There's this great fear, and I find, lack of knowledge of Catholicism, just like I'm ignorant of other things. I think we should all visit each other's places of worship and get to know a priest, get to know a rabbi. It's not that scary. I think Scientology is scary, and I don't understand Jehovah's Witnesses, but I haven't spent time with them.

Cary Fukunaga

It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.

Pat Paulsen

We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.

Nick Woodman

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.

Nick Nolte

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Kathleen Blanco

We pray that the loss of life is very limited, but we fear that is not the case.

Tom Coburn

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.

Tammy Faye Bakker

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

Salman Rushdie

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

Val McDermid

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Trent Reznor

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Bernard Beckett

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Sarah Hall

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Orison Swett Marden

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

Will Self

I can't throw anything away. Anything. I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

Bobby Johnson

We still have a great opportunity. I don't think our guys are going to let that pass by without putting in the effort. I have no fear at all that they won't come out and work.

Dan Millman

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

Cornelia Funke

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

E. W. Howe

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.