The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They...

Courage is God’s way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear,...

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A...

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers...

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly...

The other veteran said “Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don’t is a damn liar

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.

A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.

Obsession. It starts with a spark. A flicker. At the strike of a match. Lying dormant in most of us, obsession feasts on the fumes, breathes in the smoky scent, curing around and in on...

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you...

You feed your fears to grow muscles against you when you run away from what frightens you. Little do you know that it’s frightened when you face it boldly!

People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.

You think you know horror, Irnakk? Horror is looking into the eyes of the Shadowed One, knowing you are about to die… and then being forced to live. Horror is waking each day to see...

…and I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

A bold slave is more powerful than a timid king

You think you’re alone until you realize you’re in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.

You have been so sheltered, Deeta – more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom...

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

I’m afraid of my shadow, and my shadow’s afraid of the light. That’s why Noon is my best friend, and I hang out with him at midnight.

The girl’s face was the color of talcum. Her uncle’s was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane’s was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He’d...

Fear is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their courage.

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed...

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn’t know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

The hoopoe said: ‘Your heart’s congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The world is filth and...

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and...

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself

If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you...

the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t.

It’s a public safety issue. If you close down the track, what’s gonna happen out there? Everybody has the fear of illegal street racing.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Dreams are not lands of happiness. It is miscomprehended that bad dreams are nightmares. In truth, the only dreams we have are nightmares. When you are asleep, your brain wanders, bringing up thoughts of hopes...

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

I think most are too afraid to see the truth.

Stop worrying. There is no point to worrying, unless you are actually coming up with a game plan to tackle something. If you are worrying for no reason, stop. Let go and let God. Don’t...

When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn’t been there long. The branches shook with their absent weight and the birds circled above in the riddy mackerel...

unkindness �of ravens”?

It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It’s harder to scare them...

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

Nothing succeeds like Detached success.

But sometimes we are not drawn to that which is different from what we know and fear. Sometimes we are drawn to that which is exactly the same.