He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – John Dryden
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. – Bell Hooks
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. – William Tecumseh Sherman
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – Isabel Allende
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose. – Dan Gable
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. – Emile M. Cioran
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. – Marian Anderson
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. – T. E. Lawrence
Fear is the foundation of safety. – Tertullian
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear. – Billy Corgan
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world. – Joe Biden
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. – King Hussein
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. – Black Elk
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. – Jean de la Bruyere
Fear God and work hard. – David Livingstone
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future. – Fulton Oursler
A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. – Herb Kelleher
