Fear Quotes - Page 89

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.