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But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
— Robert Foster Bennett
Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
— Aaron Sanchez
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
— Bill Brandt
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
— Thomas Lynch
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
— Robert Ludlum
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
— Jerome Bruner
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
— Fred Brooks
'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
— Ralph Waite
Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.
— Mike Marsh
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
— Matthieu Ricard
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
— Henry Beston
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
— Berthe Morisot
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
— Max Roach
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
— Walter Wriston
The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.
— John Hay Whitney
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie
I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?
— Soledad O'Brien
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
— Harry S Truman
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
— Pope John Paul II
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
— Zig Ziglar
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
— Kevin Bacon
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
— Michael Jordan
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
— Regina Brett
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
— Patrick J. Kennedy
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
— Max Frisch
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
— H. P. Lovecraft
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
— Bruce Lee
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
— Joyce Meyer
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
— Marianne Williamson
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
— Charles Bukowski
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
— Che Guevara
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
— Eckhart Tolle
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
— J. K. Rowling
It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
— Sebastian Thrun
My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
— Tamara Mellon
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
— Bernard Beckett
There's no fear when you're having fun.
— Will Thomas
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
— Seth Godin
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
— W. Clement Stone
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
— Rosa Parks
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
— Kate Seredy
I 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. Rowling
If 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. Patton
We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
— Chanakya
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
— James Stephens
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
— John F. Kennedy
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The 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.
— Swami Vivekananda
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
— Julius Caesar
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
— Isoroku Yamamoto
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
— Bear Grylls
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.
— Clara Barton
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold men who in their inmost souls are true and honest men who do not fear to call sin by its right name men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. 
— Ellen G. White
My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'
— Rachel Platten
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
— Harry S Truman
We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
— Whitney Wolfe
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
— Andrew Stanton
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
— Coretta Scott King
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
— Noam Chomsky
March 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.
— Khalil Gibran
The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
— Joyce Meyer
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.
— Steven Pressfield
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
— Dan Millman
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
— Henry Ford
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
— Eduardo Galeano
A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.
— Adam Richman
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
— Thomas Hobbes
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
— Saint Augustine
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
— Sharon Salzberg
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
— Charles de Montesquieu
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
— John P. Kotter
Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing. 
— Jeffrey Kluger
Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. 
— T. D. Jakes
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
— Michael Leunig
People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.
— David D. Burns
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
— Warren Buffett
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
— Glenn Greenwald
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
— Norman Vincent Peale
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
— Frank Ocean
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.
— Joseph Prince
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
— H. L. Mencken
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson
A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
— Chris Hadfield
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
— Charles Bronson
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
— James Thurber
I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.
— Jeff Gordon
If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.
— Jenna Marbles
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
— Confucius
I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
— Taylor Swift
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
— Arnold H. Glasow
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
— Pearl S. Buck
I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.
— Drake
You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.
— Venus Williams
Good 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 Bovee
Those who own much have much to fear.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.
— Evander Holyfield
We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.
— Akhil Sharma
There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.
— Melissa Etheridge
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
— Babe Ruth
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
— Idina Menzel
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
— George Matthew Adams
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.
— Paulo Coelho
Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
— David Furnish
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
— Xun Kuang
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.
— Nate Berkus
I say I am stronger than fear.
— Malala Yousafzai
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
— Alan Greenspan
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
— Audrey Hepburn
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
— Natalie Dormer
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
— Susan Polis Schutz
You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.
— Kurt Elling
Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
— Loretta Lynch
Fear is the mother of morality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
— Sylvia Browne
The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function. 
— Stokely Carmichael
You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.
— Chris Hadfield
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
— Saint Francis de Sales
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
— Stevie Nicks
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
— Aristotle
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
— Eckhart Tolle
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
— Christopher Columbus
I delight in what I fear.
— Shirley Jackson
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
— John Hersey
The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.
— Kobe Bryant
We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.
— Louise Mensch
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
— H. L. Mencken
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
— Indra Devi
Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!
— Joel Osteen
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
— Mel Gibson
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
— Haley Joel Osment
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
— Steve Irwin
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
— Damien Hirst
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
— Jeffrey Kluger
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
— Gary Zukav
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
— Martin Luther
Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
— John Adams
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
— Gouverneur Morris
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
— Hussein of Jordan
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. 
— Francis Bacon
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
— Hermann Hesse
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
— Alan Dershowitz
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
— Dale Carnegie
At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
— Kendrick Lamar
Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.
— Suzy Kassem
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
— Patton Oswalt
Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship or taking the new job or a confrontation - you have to size fear up. 
— Chris Pine
People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.
— Kevin Mitnick
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
— Jonah Goldberg
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.
— Joko Beck
I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.
— Frank Abagnale
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
— Khalil Gibran
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
— Epicurus
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
— Horace Mann
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
— bell hooks
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
— Rene Magritte
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
— Laurence D. Fink
For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.
— John Grant
My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
— Evita Peron
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
— Aristotle
You 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 Carnegie
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
— John C. Maxwell
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
— Stevie Nicks
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
— Sterling Hayden
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
— Simone Weil
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
— Jack Nicklaus
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
— David Mamet
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
— Andrew Weil
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
— Hugo Chavez
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
— Joseph Prince
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
— Martha Beck
Our 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 MacArthur
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
— Brene Brown
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.
— Susan Cain
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
— Miles Davis
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
— Lorraine Hansberry
An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
— Debbie Ford
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
— Henri Nouwen
You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
— Gavin Newsom
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
— Dale Carnegie
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
— Brad Henry
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
— Giordano Bruno
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
— Chuck Yeager
I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
— Jonny Wilkinson
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
— Edward Albert
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
— Isabelle Adjani
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
— Robert Falcon Scott
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
— Zachary Quinto
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.
— Tan Le
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
— Stephen Kinzer
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
— Brendan Behan
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
— John Dryden
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
— Michel de Montaigne
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
— Pliny the Elder
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
— Samuel Daniel
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
— Stendhal
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
— Lauryn Hill
When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear.
— Dean Ornish
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
— John Calvin
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
— Jimmy Carter
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William E. Gladstone
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
— Dorothy Day
We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
— Peter Benchley
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
— Chaz Bono
I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.
— Siouxsie Sioux
The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.
— Guy Finley
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
— Chris Smith
It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.
— Katherine McNamara
I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.
— Colonel Sanders
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
— Mary Manin Morrissey
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.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
— Publilius Syrus
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
— Anthony de Mello
Knight without fear and without reproach.
— Richard Harris Barham
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
— bell hooks
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
— Edvard Munch
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
— Adam Smith
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
— James Joyce
I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
— Michelle Obama
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe. 
— Phil McGraw
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
— Gary Zukav
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
— Tariq Ramadan
I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.
— Lindsay Price
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
— Annie Lennox
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
— Salman Rushdie
Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
— Dalai Lama
In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
— Nancy Gibbs
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
— Rhys Ifans
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
— Frank Herbert
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
— Langston Hughes
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
— Robert Jarvik
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
— Leon Blum
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
— George W. Bush
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
— Wayne Dyer
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
— Jean de La Fontaine
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
— Milan Kundera
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
— Robert Burns
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
— Matthew Henry
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
— Alex Lowe
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
— Hussein of Jordan
We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.
— Lillian Russell
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
— Amelia Barr
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
— Stendhal
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
— Ruby Dee
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
— Huey Newton
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
— David McCallum
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
— Bashar al-Assad
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
— Ryan White
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
— Bram Stoker
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
— W. Edwards Deming
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
— Corrie Ten Boom
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
— Dean Inge
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
— Aleister Crowley
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.
— Nadia Comaneci
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
— Andrew Jackson
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
— Taylor Swift
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
— Adele
I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
— Michael Fassbender
Americans 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 King
To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
— Ricky Williams
I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
— Kurt Sutter
I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.
— Sean Combs
I like to do something I fear.
— Heath Ledger
Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.
— Amy Klobuchar
And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
— Rachel Hunter
When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
— M. Night Shyamalan
When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.
— Ray Comfort
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
— Laura Marling
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
— Jeff Hawkins
A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
— Allegra Versace