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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

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

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

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.

Fear is exciting for me.

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

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

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.

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

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.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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.

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.

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

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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.‘

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

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

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.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

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

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

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.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.