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.
Alexander the GreatI don’t believe in colleges and universities.
Ray BradburyAll 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiDo the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale CarnegieYou must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
Napoleon BonaparteTo conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellShame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
Brene BrownOne of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.
Jocko WillinkI 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.
Stephen KingNeither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand RussellUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry KissingerThe only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.
Kobe BryantOur country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurThe course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. BushWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PlatoMy experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
Michelle ObamaFear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale CarnegieGoing to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald ReaganWe of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George OrwellThe 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.
William JamesCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark TwainWe 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.
Thich Nhat HanhIt was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen 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.
Francis BaconIf an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliNothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen KingFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch SpinozaThe worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.
Kendrick LamarI have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.
Che GuevaraIf 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.
Oscar WildeThere is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch SpinozaI have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
Kevin GatesThe realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
Michelle ObamaAs a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.
Brene BrownBlack 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.
Maya AngelouCourage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
AristotleI’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous HuxleyIf I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
Edmund HillaryTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’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.
Edmund HillaryYou have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘
Maya AngelouI’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
Christopher HitchensWhat the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
Alice WalkerThe thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert HubbardI’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.
Dave GrohlThe time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. PattonThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI 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.
RihannaFear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert HubbardI 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 HawkingLife opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim CarreyI hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
Brene BrownIn this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Bill GatesOur 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 MacArthurI was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
Edmund HillaryThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBeing brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly PartonWhere 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.
Socrates