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" I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. "

Billy Bob Thornton

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" Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man. "

" Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books. "

" We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. "

" An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around. "

" Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. "

" If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him. "

" Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable. "

" Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. "

Fernando Flores

" I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. "

" Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform. "

" Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. "

" If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. "

James A. Michener

" There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. "

" 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. "

Hussein of Jordan

" Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. "

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

" It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together. "

" The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. "

" Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. "

" Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. "

Billy Bob Thornton

" Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. "

" Every journey starts with fear. "

Jake Gyllenhaal

" 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. "

" Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. "

" That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own. "