The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

Courage is not the absence of fear it is inspiring others to move beyond it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.