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" A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. "

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" As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. "

" Fear is stupid. So are regrets. "

" It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. "

" Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart. "

" It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. "

" While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God. "

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

" Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. "

" The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. "

" The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct. "

Malcolm Gladwell

" What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear. "

" Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you. "

" The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. "

" I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. "

" I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me. "

" To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. "

Joseph Chilton Pearce

" I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear. "

" Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. "

" A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear. "

" If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. "

" That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. "

" Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. "

Marianne Williamson

" I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. "

" To him who is in fear everything rustles. "

" Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. "

" Knight without fear and without reproach. "

Richard Harris Barham

" I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears. "

Denis Villeneuve

" Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. "

" Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe. "