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

James A. Michener

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" When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. "

Winston Churchill

" Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. "

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

" I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. "

" True nobility is exempt from fear. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. "

" An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. "

James A. Michener

" We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. "

" The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. "

" The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s. "

Daniel H. Wilson

" Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. "

" It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters. "

" And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. "

" When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. "

" I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales. "

" Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey. "

" I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious. "

" I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I. "

" A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. "

Kathie Lee Gifford

" 'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll. "

" At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. "

" Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found. "

" Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. "

" I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. "

Louisa May Alcott

" I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear. "

" Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them. "

Believe In Yourself

" I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. "

" Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? "

" The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton