Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Category: fear
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.