Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy

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.
Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh

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

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
Jeffrey Sachs

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
Saadi

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams

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.
Bell Hooks

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.
Bell Hooks

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Homer

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.
Douglas Bader

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Margaret J. Wheatley