Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

{The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral quoted here}Robert G. Ingersoll is dead. The brave soldier, the unswerving patriot, the true...

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to...

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said “DoloresI live in fearMy love for you’s so overpoweringI’m afraid that I will disappear

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person’s mask.

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain...

If you think about the conditions the victims of Katrina endured… the stress and fear must have been unimaginable, … When real news isn’t available, rumors percolate to fill the gap… . People start conjecturing.

We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most.

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a...

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in…it’s actually kind of...

I make a joke of it, but… but I’m afraid of death.” He straightened up and turned to look into Joseph’s eyes. Joseph saw the fear there and was shocked by the intensity of it....

How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are...

Me dan miedo los gatos blancos porque son igual de malos que los gatos negros, pero no hay manera de mirarlos y que no te apetezca acariciarlos.

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential.

If someone is playing on my fear, the natural tendency for a person is to throw all their energy and focus into protecting that vulnerability. But I say if you’re playing on my fear to...

If fear was a man he would never take risks.

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it...

Her voice faltered to a stop. Fear and confusion clutched at her throat like some terrible beast, and suddenly she was finding it difficult to breathe.

Students of public speaking continually ask, “How can I overcomeself-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before anaudience?”Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that somehorses feed near the track and never...

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn’t matter. You stood...

Maybe is wasn’t love so much as a fear of losing everything I’d accomplished. I was afraid to let go.

Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.

Darkness is a natural fear, one that takes the things you love most, the most valuable innocence, and turns them against you. The struggle is to see past the illusions, and see the light in...

They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

If you don’t truly believe in Jesus Christ, fear will be your worst enemy at the End of the Age. The gift of the Holy Spirit is the gift of no fear. John 14:1-4.

The greatest strength is consuming fear as just an illusion and not a reality.

I was Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

use fear; don’t fear fear

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of...

Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more. It’s hate.

Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn’t learn to read and write. I didn’t...

Sometimes it all becomes too much. Your body and mind will just give way. Part of you may want to blissfully fade into nothing, but you never do. After a while all the memories and...

Cowardice is the fear of contradiction.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of your underwear is certain

If there is destruction of hope, there is freedom from gods [lha]; if there is destruction of fear, there is freedom from spirits [‘dre, demons].

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach...

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or...

A One-Liner used at the right time and at the right place will create a greater impact than any story ever told in the world.

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth

It’s better to be loved than feared, but if you can’t be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are...

Once you have money and fame, the next thing you should expect is scandal and shame.

Sometimes our worst fears aren’t realized – though in my experience it’s only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.

For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone,...