It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.
I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
We were a gun-free school zone, when one of our schoolmates brought guns to school and took our school hostage. I never want anyone to have to be in that situation, again, and the fear I felt, taught me a very good lesson is our Second Amendment is one of our greatest freedoms we have, and I believe we have to protect it at all costs.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
My greatest fear: repetition.
There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.
Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.
Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.