Fear Quotes

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Fear is the mind-killer.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.

Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.” -Bill Hicks

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can't ever count yourself out. Even if you're really afraid at some point, you can't think that there's no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Never take counsel of your fears.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fear;But, grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The thing I fear most is fear.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

Every fear hides a wish.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Blame is for God and small children.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

There can be no security where there is fear.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Fear is the brother of hate.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?

I have a fear of being boring.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger—frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

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

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

Fear is the highest fence.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Fear is exciting for me.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Success has killed more men than bullets.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Anxiety is the fear of one's self.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

I am never afraid of what I know.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours

Fear can give you urgent wings.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.

Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause — a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Fear is the mother of foresight

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

A warrior never worries about his fear.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

A child understands fear and the hurt and hate it brings.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.