I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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.

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

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

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

We 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.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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

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

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

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

I 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.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, ‚I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.‘

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’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

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

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Red 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.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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

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

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

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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

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.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.