Fear Quotes - Page 17

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

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.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

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

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.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

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

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

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

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

Fear is the highest fence.

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.