Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.