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" You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots. "

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" As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. "

" I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers. "

" There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. "

Luc de Clapiers

" I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. "

" Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. "

James A. Baldwin

" 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. "

" As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive. "

" When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite. "

" Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. "

William Shakespeare

" Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it. "

Gabrielle Bernstein

" Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts. "

" I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos. "

" We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. "

" We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. "

" I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. "

Jane Welsh Carlyle

" We fear hackers lifting our digital wallet, a public accounting of our private lives, and we wonder if the shoes that follow us around the Internet will someday, with the click of a distant mouse, look like the jackboots of old. "

" I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is. "

Bernard Hopkins

" The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. "

" What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. "

" The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid. "

" Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. "

" Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid. "

Tammy Faye Bakker

" Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. "

" 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. "

" I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God. "

" People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. "

" So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. "