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...

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself, to train my body for the real fear when it comes

Fear drives you and makes you better

Embrace the love of God.

Do not fear facing people without your pants; the world is dirtier than your underwear.

There’s a time when it all comes together—what you long for and what you fear—and as tentative as you may feel, you’re driven to continue. At that point, the need to forge ahead is the...

Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body.

His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That’s what mortal terror felt...

And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds–the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave...

Beethoven said that it’s better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and...

I don’t think we’re going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with what’s been going on with oil prices and the hurricane that there’s going to...

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.

Although you hadn’t asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

Don’t be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch”, and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is”.

Listen, I wanted to say, I don’t need your judgment, okay? I have enough to deal with without you contributing, so can we just get on with this so I can get out of here?But...

Forget all that has passed.Forget all you’ve heard.Forget all your preconceived fears.See me for who I am, not who you thought I was.

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says.””Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark.””But they are in my head sometimes, so I...

The sociopaths, that’s the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well, so that the real ones can’t find you.

Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes...

It’s not the loving that hurts this girl; it’s the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload...

Fear has to be the opposite of God because it is the opposite of love. Fear is selfish, needy and focused on you. It makes no sense for God to want you in fear about...

Show me what you’ve written,” I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence,...

The fearthat all thiswill end.The fearthat it won’t.

Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear.

It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I’ve never been on the best of terms with God.

Then that’s all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me

Devour your fear.

Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it’s always in the negative sense.

Students didn’t much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive...

We underestimate the power of our own mind – for both good and bad. If we can learn to control our mindset and our responses to the adverse things in our lives, we can absolutely...

That is what’s meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn’t mean it wasn’t scary, or that I wasn’t still afraid, but now I knew that as...

Secure your dreams for they are the wings of your soul, and, when vulnerable, flight is inconceivable.

I’d felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I’d been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance...