Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature… She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists – talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There is only one universal passion fear.

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