Fear Quotes - Page 26

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

There is no illusion great than fear.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

So roar be fearless, and go chase those dreams.