Fear Quotes - Page 9

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

You can't walk in faith and fear at the same time.

Never fear your enemies, fear your actions.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.