Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIf people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinThere is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo CoelhoCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark TwainIn battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.
Kahlil GibranAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body but an evil friend will wound your mind.
BuddhaDon’t fear failure, in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce LeeDo not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin FranklinTo see what is right and not do it is want of courage or of principle.
ConfuciusOur doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William ShakespeareWe can't be brave without fear.
Muhammad AliWhen you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Paulo CoelhoThere is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.
BuddhaThere is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane AustenTwo possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
Rabindranath TagoreWhen you have faults do not fear to abandon them.
ConfuciusIf we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. PattonHe that hopes no good, fears no ill.
Thomas FullerWhat difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul, but fears to come near you?
Kahlil GibranAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoeFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AristotleMarch on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on and fear not the thorns or the sharp stones on life's path.
Kahlil GibranI have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
AristotleAmericans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Stephen KingGovernment is not reason, it is not eloquent, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George WashingtonMen despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise PascalIt was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinMen are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
AristotleThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe man of wisdom has no perplexity, the man of humanity has no worry, the man of courage has no fear.
ConfuciusFor the Eye altering alters all, The Senses roll themselves in fear, And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
William BlakeLearn as though you would never be able to master it, Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
ConfuciusFear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin DisraeliAdvance and never halt for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path for they draw only corrupt blood.
Kahlil GibranThe way of the superior person is threefold, virtuous they are free from anxieties, wise they are free from perplexities, and bold they are free from fear.
ConfuciusYou can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale CarnegieI cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de TocquevilleIf you look into your own heart and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
ConfuciusLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainOf all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
William ShakespeareWe spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya AngelouMost people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
Paulo CoelhoDon’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
Paulo CoelhoFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusA heart well prepared for adversity, in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
HoraceVirtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
William ShakespeareThe whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
BuddhaScalded cats fear even cold water.
Thomas FullerThe fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleI have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas JeffersonDon't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale CarnegieRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
Steve JobsI do not believe that any man fears to be dead but only the stroke of death.
Francis BaconOur country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurLike a lion without fear of the howling pack, Like a gust of wind ne're trapped in a snare, Like a lotus blossom ne're sprinkled by water, Let me like a unicorn in solitude roam.
BuddhaWhen you're young you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it in a sense too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
Drew BarrymoreAs long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision. Embodiments of Love Mankind today has three types of vision. The first is body oriented vision which is totally superficial. When you have this kind of vision you see only the external appearance of others such as the clothes and the ornaments they wear their facial features their body characteristics their peculiarities of speech etc. This type of vision is oriented only towards the phenomenal world. The second kind of vision is insightful vision.
Sai BabaThe greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert HubbardBe good be serviceable, Be useful be kind and Be God-fearing.
Sai BabaIf you listen to your fears you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. SchullerWe fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham MaslowFor in the end freedom is a personal and lonely battle, and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice WalkerOur government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthurMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.
Francis BaconLook not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowExploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety, is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
Paul RyanThe Lord too has to come in human form and moves about among men so that He could be listened to contacted loved revered and obeyed. He has to speak the language of men and behave like human beings as the member of the species Otherwise He would be either negated and neglected or feared and avoided.
Sai BabaExcessive fear is always powerless.
AeschylusAn oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
ConfuciusMy "fear" is my substance and probably the best part of me.
Franz KafkaI never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me every time they emerge. They cannot shock me for I willed them! Bring me your confusion your fear your craving your anxiety your inability to love the world your hesitation to serve your jealousy all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
Sai BabaThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar WildeThere are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
AeschylusFix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas JeffersonThe course of this conflict is not known yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. BushEverywhere that freedom stirs let tyrants fear.
George W. BushAs you know from school it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared even if you fail you've done your best.
Alice WalkerSome lives are highly artificial. People are sunk in fear and anxiety, mentally on one side and physically on the other they have no rest. Drugs tablets capsules and pills are produced in millions but the general health has not improved. Besides new varieties of illness have emerged and are developing fast.
Sai Baba`Father O father! what do we here, In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star.
William BlakeI don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac ShakurBiography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar WildePresident Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things distractions distortions smear fear anger frustration.
Paul Ryan