Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
Robert Mugabe

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Saint Francis de Sales

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon