Fear Quotes - Page 30

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Social control is best managed through fear.