Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
My biggest fear in life is fear.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.
The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.
You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.
In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
