Failure is an option, fear is not.

I am the embodiment of fear.

I’m very much afraid of being mad – that’s my one fear.

I fear nothing and I regret less.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

He that hopes no good fears no ill

Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear

Scalded cats fear even cold water

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

You cannot stay! They will find us.

If you’re not gone forever after you make your move, we are dead.

It is devastating that a celebration of America was ripped apart by our uniquely American plague, a day dedicated to freedom has put into stark relief the one freedom we, as a nation, refuse to uphold : The freedom of our fellow citizens to live without the daily fear of gun violence.

Fear is like mind-cancer; it is a disease of consciousness, a dysfunctional condition of ignorance trapped within a little picture

Pirates do not use to set upon poor empty vessels; and beggars need not fear the thief. Those that have most of God, and are most rich in grace – shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world

To live without fear of death – is to die living!

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all

Mark Twain once said that true bravery isn’t the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear.

The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair

Look not in my eyes, for fear
They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And love it and be lost like me.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears

O, let it go – fear not, but be at ease: The heat ne’er bother’d R2 anyway.

Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that you don’t need anyone, you can take care of yourself.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts

Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience. His mother and fear impelled him to keep away from the white wall. Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light. So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him – rising with every mouthful of meat he swallowed, with every breath he drew. In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.

Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, – the most terrible fear a man can experience, – I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

The road was little trafficked, and I was too happy about my escape to feel much fear. I was free of orders.

Daughter, we didn’t need your note – or a prince’s visit – to tell us you’d done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.

Everyone has got the fear It’s holding on Holding on.

Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

It is difficult to begin with Atletico, because there is pressure from the fans, because they are accustomed to a very good goalkeeper, but I have no fear of that. I play my game.

The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn’t let that fear dull your desire to win

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

His deepest fear was that its invention would inspire a deadly nuclear arms race between the West and the Soviet Union. To prevent this, he insisted, it was imperative that the Russians be told about the existence of the bomb project, and be assured that it was no threat to them.

Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

One of the biggest fears that I actually had was after my retirement to be completely forgotten.

The reason I always loved ‘The Omen’ so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that’s very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all

I Live Life With No Fear, Except For The Idea That One Day You Won’t Be Here

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It’s just a fear of not knowing what women have that’s so powerful. It’s this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I hear the fear and hope fighting in my voice.

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love

The weapon of suicide besieging is urgent to such an extent that you aren’t left with the plausibility of delivering retribution or rebuffing anybody; the fear-monger is executed alongside his unfortunate casualties, his blood blending in with theirs.

The weapon of suicide bombarding is edgy to the point that you aren’t left with the probability of delivering retribution or rebuffing anybody; the fear-based oppressor is executed alongside his unfortunate casualties, his blood blending in with theirs.

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound – and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The root of war is fear

The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.

Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent where fear of losing what we have is greater than the ambition to make it anew

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

It is the most complete skin-crawling, silently screaming evocation of hell; the reinforced concrete transubstantiation of sleepless megalomania and hysterical fear

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it’s not a natural drive – it’s born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

Her shoulders sagging, her back hunched, her eyelids tired, Rose-Anna sewed for the feast, not daring even to sing for fear of frightening off her joy.

Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we’re focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.

The unfortunate truth is, many of us are addicted to fear. We’ve become so accustomed to the fearful projections of the world that we don’t trust that things can be good.

Love can seem far scarier to us than fear. We’re terrified to let love in, because we fear that when we do, we’ll be susceptible to more pain.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Fear and stress–one creates the other.

The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are relying on your own strength.

If we want to live a miraculous life, we must raise the volume on the loving voice within us and turn down the volume on our fear.

Fear is just a story we tell ourselves. Choose a new story.

The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we’ll raise the energy around us.

Our problem is that we choose to deny love. In fact, we only have one problem: that our mind chooses fear over love.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

I am willing to witness my fears.

Freedom from fear offers you the freedom to be the greatest version of yourself.

We sense love, but we don’t believe in it. We save our faith for fear. But ultimately, there is a quiet voice in each of us that longs for something better.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must approve more of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Never let fear be your guiding force.

You cannot live in fear.

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry… no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

Freedom of speech…Freedom of worship…Freedom from want…Freedom from fear

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

If death causes you no pain when you’re dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Never allow fear to overpower your passion.

Believe, don’t fear, believe.

Fear is the ultimate leverage of power.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Don’t let fear hold you back from reaching your full potential.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful – or not, as the case may be – has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I don’t give a f***. We’re not fighting. I don’t care what anyone thinks about me. All the stuff I have to do outside the fighting, the promotion, this, I don’t give a f***. But when I am facing up for a fight, I know what they’re thinking. I can read their minds. When I am going face to face with an opponent, nose to nose, I can smell the fear, and I’m feeling no fear at all.

I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.

You can’t fear success and I think a lot of people do… I’m not like that. I’m going for it.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.