Leo Tolstoy

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Kings are the slaves of history.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

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.

My greatest fear is getting bored.

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

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

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

Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.