The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
I had a kind of artrock band called Peanut for a while, which eventually helped me over my fear of singing. That was a big step for me. I never dreamed I could sing songs in front of people.
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.
Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working wi...
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.