The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
When Trump goes after the media and calls it fake news, he should be impeached - and everyone should say this. But the media lives in fear.
I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
When I was a child, I had an intense fear of going to prison. I wasn't on the run or anything - my crimes were small and they were all against fashion. But I had nightmares about accidentally killing someone, or being falsely accused.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.
We donβt duck democratic choices out of fear of fascists.
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.
Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal fates.
