Fear Quotes - Page 37

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Success is on the far side of failure.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.