Fears Quotes

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Anderson

Mind, Remember, Action

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins

Dreams, Insecure, Become

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz

Doubt, Short, Problems

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Henry Louis Gates

Fear, Hate, Real

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
Thomas S. Monson

Hope, Decisions, Learn

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid

Everyone, Wishes, Whom

Love is full of anxious fears.
Ovid

Love, Full, Anxious

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
William Penn

Live, Lives, Dying

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave Grohl

Emotional, Spring, Young

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Good, Great, Men

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus

Experience, Everything, Friends

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

Pride, Weakness, Rivals

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
Jennifer Aniston

Marriage, Doubts, Mistrust

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Women, Men, Fear

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Marilyn vos Savant

Mother, Father, Able

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

Life, After, Making

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.
Herodotus

Best, Everything, Him

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

Life, Nature, Time

The common person fears to think beyond the common.
Bryant H. McGill

Person, Common, Beyond

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde

Change, Future, Poetry

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.
Heidi Klum

Life, Forget, Saying

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Society, Congress, Physical

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina

Small, Cannot, Worth

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky

Life, Politics, Time

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Abu Bakr

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
Terri Clark

Best, Courage, Through

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.
Shania Twain

Life, Whole, Voice

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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Everybody, Interested, Parts

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.
Jonathan Davis

Nice, Issues, Album

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