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I was in awe every time I walked on to the field

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.

I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me.  Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is.  I can feel its presence.  But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

I was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness. . . . He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk).

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

Let them hate me provided they fear me

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Look at your life as an experiment. Make a comprise with all your doubts and fears: For a year or two, do what you can to move toward your ideal scene, in a easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way. See what happens.

Love dispels fear just as light dispels darkness. If even for a moment you have been in love with someone, fear disappears and thinking stops. With fear thinking continues. The more you are afraid, the more you have to think.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.