The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.
The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.
At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.
Fear will make you stingy.
There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
Let them hate so long as they fear.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Fear doesn't exist in football, especially for Real Madrid.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
I say I am stronger than fear.
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash.