Exempt Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

— Pietro Metastasio

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Fear must rule in a despotism.

— Lajos Kossuth

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it…

— Baron de Montesquieu

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men…

— Adam Smith

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

— Jean Rostand

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

— Anonymous

“People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.”

— Timothy Roderick

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

— Epictetus