Fear usually benefits the feared; seldom the fearful.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

We want to be women who advance. The kingdom of God is advancing, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Don’t you want to advance along with it? Don’t you want to...

Weaponry is a fear-raising idea.

Answer me, you good-for-nuthin’ wench!” The pain bit instantly as his hand connected with my cheek. I shook my head in answer to his crazy questions, feeling a rise of warm tears.

You’ll know that you and the vision are one when your actions flow out of a knowing that’s greater than your fears. Sure, you might be stunned by an obstacle, but it doesn’t determine your...

Fear’ defeats more people than any other one thing in the World, walk into this World with the ‘spirit of adventure’….the word adventure will lead you through…focusing on the newness instead of focusing on fear...

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

(Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.)

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Sometimes you don’t realize your fear of heights until you stand at the edge of the cliff, ready to jump.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Those who choose to walk on love’s path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or...

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Embracing life and overcoming fear are one and the same.

Pandora’s Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

Sometimes we have toxic relationships with certain people. We know who they are, We know how they operate, and we still haven’t cut them off. It’s difficult for us to let people go, even if...

Fear takes root in the soil of insecurity.

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to find his parents during the night, but because he fears his...

That particular fear has the texture you can neither forget nor describe. It is like the fear of the victims of an earthquake, of people who have lost faith in the stillness of the earth....

Catti-brie didn’t blink, barely drew breath. She was thinking how noble this drow had been. So many other men would not have asked questions, would have taken advantage of the situation. And would that have...

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

She knew Paul D was adding something to her life—something she wanted to count on but was scared to… His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her...

When you fear falling, you never get off the ground.

Don’t be afraid to be the person who loves the most

Our life is like a journey…’ – and so the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual realms than a concentrated likeness of our existence: residents of a city, citizens...

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. As I have already said, religious fundamentalism was on the rise, but that is not the type of superstition I...

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.

Oh my God! Why do we do that? What does it mean?” The auditorium erupted in some kind of crazy parent revival. As I had suspected, I was not alone.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you’re scared enough. I was scared enough.

The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education,...

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

The ones who appear to be unemotional are in real the most emotional ones.

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all.

There were dragons, in his dreams, as though some part of him knew the trials were not yet over, that there were battles yet to be fought. He slept fitfully, fidgeting, tossing and turning, groaning...

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous....

I began to get a feeling (…) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you’re afraid all the time.

Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we’d starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in...

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion known to man, something deeply inscribed in our nervous system and subconscious. Over time, however, something strange began to happen. The actual terrors that we faced began to...