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" We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. "

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" What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear. "

" To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. "

" I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. "

" Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings. "

" Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. "

John Henry Newman

" Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. "

" Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me. "

" It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. "

Georges Bernanos

" The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers. "

" The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. "

George Saunders

" In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear. "

Radhanath Swami

" Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. "

Isabelle Adjani

" Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us. "

" Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. "

" The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. "

Ellen DeGeneres

" I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it. "

" You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. "

George Bernard Shaw

" No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. "

Olive Schreiner

" A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. "

" 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

" Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. "

" What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. "

" It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. "