In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear.
My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.
The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
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.
I delight in what I fear.
When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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.
We must not be afraid to define our enemy. It is Islamic extremist terrorism. I did not say all of Islam. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. Failing to identify them properly maligns decent Muslims around the world. It also sets up a fear of being politically incorrect that can have serious consequences. And it has.
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.
I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.
Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
