Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don’t fear being judged.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty – even when it limits them.
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.
If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There’s steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fear is always there; it’s a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.
You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you’re going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you’re on the right track.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.
