If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
I’m not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
The 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.
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
My biggest fear is death because I don’t think I’m going anywhere. And since I don’t think that, and I don’t have a belief… I’m married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she’s going somewhere.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder – but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
I’d recommend anyone watch ‘Harold and Maude,’ ’cause it helps a lot with fear of death.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don’t act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you’re completely free to try anything.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It’s because I’m freelance, and I’ve never had a proper job. I don’t have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I’m on the whole a fairly shy person.
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
Exploiting 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.
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one’s purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one’s self.
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
The fear of failing… not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it’s still our deepest longing – but it’s now also our deepest fear.
The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
I don’t think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
