Excessive fear is always powerless.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That is why I tend not to wear heels.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

I think Dilbert will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. Dilbert is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

The strongest passion is fear.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.