We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.  Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer quotes 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 quotes One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Diogenes quotes Courage is one step ahead of fear. Coleman Young quotes Don't fear change, embrace it. Anthony J. D'Angelo quotes A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. Albert Einstein quotes Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine quotes To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. Homer quotes | 
