“Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.”– Martha Beck Related Quotes “The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.”– Eric Hoffer “Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”– Lord Chesterfield “To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.”– Homer