Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see...

Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

God didn’t give fear a body. God gave love a body.

I’ve loved you for a long time, ‘ she said. ‘But there was always something holding me back. Maybe it was that I was afraid of an emotion that was so consuming. It still frightens...

Don’t fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

When you’re scared – and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth...

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire… Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the...

We fear what we long for. This is the paradox.

Dear God.

Fear is the assassin of dreams

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they’re going to tell your business...

…this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of...

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

The story of 2005 was the dollar defying an overwhelmingly bearish consensus. The dollar has little to fear from a slowdown in U.S. consumption growth as this will eventually lead to an improved external trade...

There is a fear that we’ll have a negative surprise and inflationary fears are keeping people on the sidelines, … There’s no real great impetus out there to drive the market.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them–one or two of them particularly– almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt...

What separates courage from fear our the thoughts we choose to believe.

While this certainly sounds dramatic, we fear it may not be enough. Unless the Big Three break their pattern of deflation and market share losses, it is likely that each of them will experience reductions...

I am petrified of water!” she whispered, as he tried to cajole her to at least put her feet in.

The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been...

Do you what you fear to do.Go where you fear to go.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don’t feel safe to let people in, it is because you’re not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils...

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What’s sadder is when they are Christian.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears – real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn’t need to be rational...

As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it’s only evident that they’re learning from you. Maybe you taste bad – kind of like medicine, kind of like truth – and to them,...

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It’s always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I’ve experienced has left...

I am so exhausted and bored of my life. I should try something extreme, it must promise a lot of fear and pain but end with eternal silence, like suicide.

[Still, Law was a gamble for NBC.] My big fear, … was that it would just be talking heads-blah, blah, blah.

We have reached the point of saturation – a vicious revolving door of never-ending seasons. Children can’t even take a couple of months’ hiatus from a sport for fear of falling behind their peers and...

Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.

Don’t dim the light in you. Make your corner bright. Fight a good fight with all your might. Wake up and dare to win; never fear because of what others might say. You’ll overcome!

When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness. . . . The wilderness is the place where God...

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

Flowers and fear are a lot alike. For one, flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two, I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden.

It is not the fear factor that makes me want to avoid Cameroon. It is a tactical matter. It is best to avoid the strongest teams in the last eight. But I repeat it has...

Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!

When your faith is sinking, drown your fear

Hoping you were the first to do something, and fearing you weren’t the first, won’t change the future by altering the past. If you can’t be Neil Armstrong, then be Neil Armstronger.

I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It’s good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn’t...

I’m a fallible human being – but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?

…to return to their ‘native soil,’ as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and...