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“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
Marilyn Monroe
“My fear is my only courage”
Bob Marley
“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”
Winston Churchill
“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.”
George Washington Bush
“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”
George Washington Bush
“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.”
George Washington Bush
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
Julius Caesar
“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.”
Julius Caesar
“You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much
about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the
will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.”
Hillary Clinton
“What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from
friends, allies, around the world.”
Hillary Clinton
“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”
Johnny Depp
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot
“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.”
Clint Eastwood
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
Helen Keller
“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”
Helen Keller
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
Eleanor Roosevelt