Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I 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.

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.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

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.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

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

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

What 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.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I 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.