I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

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

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

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.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

For me, there is only love and fear.

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

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.