For me, there is only love and fear.
~ Pink
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
~ Maria Bamford
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
~ Anne Hutchinson
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
~ Anne Lamott
I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.
~ Steven Wright
For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.
~ Georges St-Pierre
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
~ Bear Grylls
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
~ Franz Kafka
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
~ Javier Camara
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
~ Hannah Kent
I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
~ Britney Spears
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
~ Robert Frost
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
~ Viggo Mortensen
For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
~ Chris Hardwick
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
~ Keith Richards
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
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.
~ Darren Aronofsky
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
~ Lou Brock
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.
~ Pat Sajak
I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.
~ Ethan Zohn
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
~ Kyrie Irving
The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
~ Paul Ryan
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
~ Casey Stengel
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
~ Gautam Gambhir
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.
~ John C. Maxwell
I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
~ Sam Walton
To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.
~ Christine Lagarde
For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
~ Melanne Verveer
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
~ Madeleine Albright
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?
~ Rick Perlstein
Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
~ Charles Kennedy
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
~ John Lewis
I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
~ Nancy Pelosi
It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
~ Sam Graves
Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.
~ Jeff Sessions
I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.
~ Bill Flores
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.
~ Justin Trudeau
