There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell Bovee

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
Barbara Deming

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
Laura Schlessinger

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
Adam Arkin

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
John Foster

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
Frances Burney

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.
Martin Frost

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.
Kurt Eisner

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
David Mallet

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
June Jordan

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
Daniel Yergin

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.
Michael Todd

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Kahlil Gibran

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
Mel Gibson

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker