I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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.

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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

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

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.

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.

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.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

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.

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.

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

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

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

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

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

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

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.

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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.

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 world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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 only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

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.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

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.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

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

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.