“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”— François de La Rochefoucauld Related Quotes “There isn’t so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I’d spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.”— Nick Hornby “Fear is intense self-awareness.”— Don DeLillo “People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.”– Henry Louis Gates