Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

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.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

In 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.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

My 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.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

We 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.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Bad 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.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

If 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.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Fear 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.

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

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Since 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.

Fear 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.

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.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

As 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.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.