Fear Quotes - Page 51

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.

the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.