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

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" Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television. "

" You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.' "

" I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. "

Stanley Kubrick

" 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. "

" Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. "

" There is no worse emotion than fear. "

" How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. "

Florence Nightingale

" I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. "

" Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. "

" Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? "

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. "

Marianne Williamson

" The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. "

Emile M. Cioran

" A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. "

" Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. "

" Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace. "

" Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation. "

" 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. "

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

" I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it. "

" It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. "

" Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. "

" We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. "

" A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" 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

" 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. "

" The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need. "

Joseph J. Lhota

" When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension. "

Woody Harrelson

" We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. "

" When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. "