Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
Do the very best you can.
The bringer of fear was afraid.
Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.
Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.
I do think men fear female intuition.
It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.
Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
Violence is the instinctive response to fear.
It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
Love is always creative, fear always destructive.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.