Fear Quotes - Page 13

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

We fear circumstances so much because we fear God so little.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

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.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

fear no man but only God

I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

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

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me