Chris Pine Quotes

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.