Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. – Francis of Assisi
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. – John C. Maxwell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell
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. – Mitt Romney
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. – J. K. Rowling
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. – T. S. Eliot
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. – Richard Bach
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. – Douglas MacArthur
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. – Niccolo Machiavelli
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. – Bertrand Russell
Where fear is, happiness is not. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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. – J. K. Rowling
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. – Alexander Pope
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. – Abdul Kalam
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. – Bertrand Russell
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest. – Napoleon Bonaparte
