Michelle Obama

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

Find people who will make you better.

When they go low, we go high.

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.

My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen. So I’m always game for a good joke, and I’m not so formal in this role. There’s very little that we can’t do that people wouldn’t appreciate.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

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.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

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