Fear Quotes - Page 68

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

Every day do something that frightens you.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.