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

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

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’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

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

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

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.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Fear is real, but so is love.

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

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

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

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.

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.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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.

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

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.