If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

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.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

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.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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

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.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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

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.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

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.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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

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.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

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

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

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.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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

I really believed that fear is contagious.

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

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.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

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

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.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

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

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

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

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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

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

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

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.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.