More quotations tagged with “fear”
When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure—but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.
—Gretchen Rubin
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
—Barbara de Angelis
It's when that fear goes away that you know you've found the right person to risk everything for.
—Catherine Bybee in Not Quite Mine
When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them.
—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir
What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
—Logan Pearsall Smith