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

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

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.

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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

For greed all nature is too little.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

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.

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

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

For 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.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

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

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

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

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

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.

If 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.

The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Black 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.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

We 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.

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.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

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

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

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.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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

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

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.