The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffer

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Susan Sontag

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
John Gotti

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy Carter

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
David Icke

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.
Charles Manson

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith

Let us banish fear.
Carter G. Woodson

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka

The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
John McCain

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock