Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

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.

My greatest fear is getting bored.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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.