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

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.

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

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Americans 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.

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

I 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.

It 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.

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.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

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.

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

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

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

Men 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.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

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

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

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

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

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

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

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.

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.