Fear Quotes - Page 16

Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

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

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

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

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Being afraid is the worst sin there is.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.