Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.