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" Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. "

Marian Anderson

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" When I look back at my journey, it gives me a sense of confidence. I have been through an odd journey from Delhi to Mumbai, struggling, not having a job, shifting houses... Today, I am giving interviews. So it does give me gratitude and confidence. The fear is gone. "

Sidharth Malhotra

" People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. "

William Shakespeare

" I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are. "

" Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. "

" The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. "

" The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way. "

Munshi Premchand

" I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me. "

" Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. "

" Fear is always a good motivator. "

" Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. "

" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. "

Bertrand Russell

" Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. "

" If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. "

" I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. "

Nikos Kazantzakis

" Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning. "

" I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. "

" No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "

" A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Fear is the passion of slaves. "

" I never get tired of talking about 'Galaxy Quest.' I am so proud of that movie. Our only fear was that we were having so much fun making the movie we got concerned it might not be as good as we thought it was going to be. "

Enrico Colantoni

" What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. "

" Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. "

" Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House. "

" We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. "

" It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety. "

" 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