Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.

That’s the No. 1 fear, and you’ve had pretty much every Fed governor come out in the last two weeks talking about inflation being at the high end of the range, and that’s what got...

Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

I was terrified of my weakness, of my sharp tongue, ofmy every flaw. I was terrified that this moment, my chance tolive in happiness for however short a time we may have had,would be ruined...

I tend to scare myself.

Jude was good. But he let his fear and jealousy get to him.” Daniel shrugged. “‘Fear leads toanger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the dark side.

There will always be fear; do it anyway. Let your courage inspire the world around you.

From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you’re freed from the dear You’ll have no grief, let alone fear.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave. But what people don’t know, is that I grew up with phobias and...

Aaron had a very busy summer, and that’s something a lot of coaches fear. I don’t know if that has something to do with it. Sometimes international experience can wear on you.

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may...

I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep

BEFRIENDING THE BODY Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people...

The strongest love is that which flows out of fear.

I hate going back. I’d rather live at the bottom of my river of black, dragged this way and that by the forces that be, than go back there. Those forty-eight hours took twenty years...

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is – what kind of world are you creating? What...

I will simply die, as you will simply die, when our hearts stop beating. And instead of the fires of Hell or the clouds of Heaven, there will be a chorus of hungry worms or...

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child’s eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you’re prone to disaster fantasies, you may even find yourself caught in the middle, staring at your half-finished canvas and fearing...

Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle...

The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind...

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she’s a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever...

Wananchi wakiamua kufanya kitu katika nchi yao kwa asilimia 100 serikali, na taasisi zake zote, haitaweza kuwazuia. Kwa sababu, mamlaka ya wananchi hushinda ya serikali.

Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren’t afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your...

When we are prey to our fears, we have to remember that we are giving power to that which does not exist. And remember that the only reality is Unconditional Love: the eternal, immutable state...

Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each...

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

I wonder if that fear still creeps up on her now though she worked so hard to face it—I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

While you’re waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!

Ghosts do frighten me but I think it is really a fear of the unknown. It is also the way that I was raised as a child in the Asian culture to believe in their...

The door for negotiations is still open. We don’t fear the Security Council. It’s not the end of the world.

Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he’s at work, you are too late!

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will…And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger,...

That’s the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores–when we can ride past them at Fayette and Monroe, car doors locked, our...

Fear cannot be trusted…It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real...

I believe there are three tenants to live by in this apartment called Life: Love is empowering, Fear is motivating, and Passion is fruit.

Just jump, make that call, take the next step and say NO, I’m done, that’s it! As long as you entertain fearful thoughts, you’ll continue to feel the pain. So, just take some kind of...

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

I’m not a hillbilly—I’m a hillwilliam. Or, rather, a William Hill. That was my name at the last networking conference, when I stole a nametag to make friends without fear of insulting them with lasting...

More than anything, Natalie wanted to move to the bed, take Sophie’s hand, sit beside her.Lay her head against her shoulder. But she didn’t dare. Or maybe just couldn’t. Fear. Friendship. Desire. Regret. Remorse. Longing....

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.