Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

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

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

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