If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinIf you want to conquer fear don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale CarnegieIn 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 GibranDon’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 AliIt's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad AliWhen you have faults do not fear to abandon them.
ConfuciusHe that hopes no good, fears no ill.
Thomas FullerIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun TzuAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoePower is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma GandhiPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John SteinbeckA just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war
Francis BaconFaith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel OsteenI have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah WinfreyIt's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen KellerFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiIt was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinI believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah WinfreyThe thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah WinfreyA person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin DisraeliLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainThe 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.
BuddhaA mother's life you see is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de BalzacI have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas JeffersonDo the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark TwainNo one loves the man whom he fears.
AristotleA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.
AristotleRemembering 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 JobsOur 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 BabaNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeOur 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 MacArthurThe 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.
AeschylusGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong, he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe world we see, that seems so insane, is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William JamesI 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 BabaThere is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliFix 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 JeffersonIt is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear
Francis BaconTruth has no fear, Untruth shivers at every shadow.
Sai BabaMen ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely offend them they take vengeance but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliUnless India stands up to the world no one will respect us. In this world fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
Abdul KalamProsperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity of the New which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God Francis Bacon
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. MaxwellFear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. RowlingThere will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. EdisonThe fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous, it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Emile ZolaIn this busy age of fear and anxiety the remembrance of God and repetition of His name is the one means of liberation that is accessible to all.
Sai BabaSo long as you say I am . there is bound to be fear but once you say and feel I am GOD you get unconquerable strength.
Sai BabaSome 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 BabaThe strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas PaineIt is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I still had a daughter who I adored and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee