“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: Marilyn Monroe Quotes vol 1
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“So many times I’ve made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Days are stupid length. They are just long enough to get regret and then you have to go to bed.”
Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian
on days.
Yeah, Yeah (2011)
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“The it-rich are those who have chosen to face their fears rather than live with regrets.”
Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Ah, my Belov'ed fill the Cup that clears
To-day Past Regrets and Future Fears:
To-morrow!”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
“All men are stupid. They are full of fear and insecurity—it makes them weak.”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 13
Context: And now I am going to tell you a great truth, and if you are wise, you will take it to your heart. All men are stupid. They are full of fear and insecurity— it makes them weak. Always the other man seems stronger, more confident, more capable. It is a lie of the worst kind, for we lie to ourselves... How do you know? You do not! You listened to the voice of your inadequacy, and because you believed, you are in my power. If I draw my sword, you are dead!