Fear Quotes - Page 70

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

And in the fearless, reckless pursuit of intimate love, it is not the destination it's the journey.

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.