Mark Twain

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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

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

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.

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

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

My greatest fear is getting bored.

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

There is only one universal passion fear.

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 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

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

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

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

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.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.