Fear Quotes - Page 20

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

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

There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .

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.