“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”– John Dryden Related Quotes “There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”– Thomas Hobbes “To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.”– Horace “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”– Isoroku Yamamoto