Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

I do not fear death because I do not fear anything I do not understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I am proof against that word failure. I have seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

As you know from school, it is when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Do not fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.