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.
Richard BransonI am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
Michelle ObamaI feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.
DrakeBoth 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.
EpicurusJust as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da VinciThe U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.
Bill GatesA lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
Jackie ChanIf you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
Noam ChomskyThere is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI 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.
Nelson MandelaIt was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
VoltaireI have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.
AuroraFear is exciting for me.
Ayrton SennaI’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
Lady GagaTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac AsimovThe 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.
Amelia EarhartHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’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.
Anne FrankI’m not ashamed to say I fear something.
DJ KhaledOur 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.
Douglas MacArthurA public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. NixonSince 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.
Niccolo MachiavelliHow much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas JeffersonFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. LewisI have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint EastwoodThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert EinsteinThe only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.
Joyce MeyerThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous HuxleyThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeYou know we’re going to control the insurance companies.
Joe BidenNothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert CamusThe truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.
Jerry SeinfeldThere is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. PattonI’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
Christopher HitchensA policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma GandhiFear 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.
Wayne DyerOur country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurYou must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul SartreNothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.
Alice WalkerRitual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.
Conor McGregorWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaCourage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
AristotleSimulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao TzuI’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel WashingtonIt is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo MachiavelliI 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.
Stephen HawkingFor most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiFear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart TolleI 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.
Tennessee WilliamsI’m terrified of losing my voice.
Christopher HitchensDeath is a fearful thing.
William ShakespeareUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper LeeI 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.
Richard P. FeynmanWe can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack ObamaTime travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘
Stephen Hawking