The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Greed is normally balanced by fear.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit.
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
I think courage is commensurate with your fear – if you lack imagination and you’re fearless, that’s not courage to me.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
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.
Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
Let us banish fear.
When Trump goes after the media and calls it fake news, he should be impeached – and everyone should say this. But the media lives in fear.
I decided to make ‘Captain America’ because I realized I wasn’t doing the film because it terrified me. You can’t make decisions based on fear.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
I’m not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don’t understand.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
