The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

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.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Fear is the mother of morality.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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.

The 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.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Fear is exciting for me.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

If 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.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

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.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.