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. KennedyMen walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Brene BrownCourage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
John WayneToo much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
Dalai LamaMen 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 MachiavelliDread of night. Dread of not-night.
Franz KafkaI’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
David BowieI hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
Brene BrownThere is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. PattonI really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.
Paul AusterMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher HitchensUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper LeeImagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.
Thomas SowellThe worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.
Kendrick LamarMine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘
Dolly PartonFear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.
Wayne DyerI hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
Queen Elizabeth III can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.
Kevin HartThe course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. BushWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
Elon MuskThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyHatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
Napoleon BonaparteI long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya AngelouLogically, 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 LamaIf 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. PattonBeing brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly PartonIf God is just, I tremble for my country.
Thomas JeffersonWorry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten BoomExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace ThackerayShame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
Brene BrownTo lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar WildeEvery nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James MadisonRed is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
Taylor SwiftPeople are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
Billie EilishA son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo MachiavelliMeditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Thich Nhat HanhI want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
Jackie RobinsonNothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert CamusMy mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
Angelina JolieWhen you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Cristiano RonaldoI don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac AsimovPeople don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.
Muhammad AliVulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.
Brene BrownEven the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother TeresaAbove all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Golda MeirFear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert HubbardThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeLove is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Ariana GrandeAlways do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMy experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
Michelle ObamaIf you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiEngineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.
Colin PowellIt is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Julius CaesarYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil GibranIt is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac AsimovEverything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
Robert KiyosakiI just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady Gaga