Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

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.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

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.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

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.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Meditation 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.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

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

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.