Steve Irwin Quotes

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

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

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

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.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

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.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.