Fear Quotes - Page 22

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.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

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.

Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.

Never fear your enemy but always respect them

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.