When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
Every journey starts with fear.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Embrace the fear and go for it. That's what I do. I don't run from it - I embrace the fear.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
There's bigger threats in my neighborhood than LeBron James, so I have no fear whatsoever of LeBron.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
When you have no fear, the possibilities are endless.
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.
No one should have to live in fear.
When you're fearful, you stumble.
You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you're going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you're on the right track.
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.