Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund BurkeI wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
Elon MuskThe more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Eckhart TolleLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor DostoevskyYou must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul SartreWhen even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. TrumanIt 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson MandelaIn this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard ShawThe only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.
Kobe BryantThe eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise PascalOvercoming 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’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel WashingtonNothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn time we hate that which we often fear.
William ShakespeareMany 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.
Thich Nhat HanhWith 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.
Thich Nhat HanhA woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham LincolnAs 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 BrownYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann HesseThe 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 EarhartMy father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
Joyce MeyerMeditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Thich Nhat HanhAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerFor 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 is the mother of morality.
Friedrich NietzscheWe are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
AristotleThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyCourage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. PattonIt is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurWhat 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAmericans 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.
Stephen KingCourage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
AristotleWe 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.
Harry S. TrumanThese people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher ColumbusAs soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
ChanakyaThe greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
Elbert HubbardBad 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.
Anthony BourdainPeople are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
Billie EilishThe people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon BonaparteWe must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Alice WalkerThe mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Hunter S. ThompsonI 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.
Joe BidenThe Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.
Robert GreeneWe fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
Thich Nhat HanhKeep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.
Robert GreeneIf 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 KrishnamurtiThe key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian TracySimulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao TzuDo 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 CarnegieFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AristotleEverybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.
Robert GreeneSince the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie ChanMy only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas JeffersonThings done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William ShakespeareThe day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaParanoia is just another word for ignorance.
Hunter S. ThompsonMarriage is scary to me, man.
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