Fear Quotes - Page 34

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

There can be no security where there is fear.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Dying on the inside, but outside you're looking fearless

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls.

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more.