Fear Quotes - Page 27

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around Fear is a friend who's misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.