Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

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.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

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

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

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.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I 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.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Death is a fearful thing.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‚What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?‘. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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

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

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

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.