One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellLet the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin DisraeliMy peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz KafkaOvercoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
Richard BransonMeditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne DyerCowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius CaesarPoverty 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.
J. K. RowlingOne of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.
Jocko WillinkMen ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann HesseThe only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.
Kobe BryantI don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.
John KennedyA first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaWe have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
Lou HoltzIf you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.
Joyce MeyerWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
Alexander PopeIt’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Thich Nhat HanhFear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert HubbardFear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale CarnegieNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeThe less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint EastwoodNeurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl JungFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteBehavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
Michelle ObamaI have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.
EminemMusic is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.
EminemWith increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
Marilyn MonroeIt is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
VoltaireHatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur SchopenhauerDrag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark TwainFear follows crime and is its punishment.
VoltaireOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusI’m not ashamed to say I fear something.
DJ KhaledVulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.
Brene BrownEverybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.
Robert GreeneI’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenIf God is just, I tremble for my country.
Thomas JeffersonIn this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard ShawThat we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Aldous HuxleyFear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis PresleyIf I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
Angelina JolieIf I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma GandhiI have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.
Taylor SwiftI was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
Lady GagaDo the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale CarnegieI’m terrified of losing my voice.
Christopher HitchensKeep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John MuirEncouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
Maya AngelouIf I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.
Tom BradyPhysical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Dalai LamaThe deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl JungMeditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.
Ariana GrandeOne of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother TeresaIf there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.
Terry PratchettI go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?
Billie Eilish