The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

Make YOUR can larger than YOUR can't, and YOUR DREAMS bigger than YOUR doubts

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

When you got to where your fear lives, your freedom starts to display itself.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.

I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

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