Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

Fear is primarily a creation of the mind. I create it in my mind-it doesn’t really exist outside the mind. I can dissolve it there as well. – John Mackey

Fear is a useless emotion. Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility.

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face, and there will be barriers, be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.

There is only one universal passion fear.

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.

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.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me.

Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

I am pretty fearless. You know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.