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" Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. "

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" Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. "

" I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. "

Cesare Beccaria

" It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible. "

Katherine McNamara

" There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. "

" Men! The only animal in the world to fear. "

" The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure. "

Robin S. Sharma

" You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. "

" Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear. "

" 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

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

" Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives. "

" Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. "

Norman Vincent Peale

" Fear is the mother of morality. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it. "

" 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. "

" But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me. "

Anne Hutchinson

" Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. "

" Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. "

" Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear. "

" Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking. "

" Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. "

" I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. "

" Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of. "

" All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. "

Richard Le Gallienne

" Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. "

" I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. "

" 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

" Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. "

" Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. "

Abdullah II of Jordan