God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
Ruby DeeThink freely and independently or you are a slave bound by imaginary
shackles. These shackles may be wrought by tradition, emotion, neediness, or
fear.
Jason MercheyThe surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
John RandolphThey hate whom they fear
Quintus EnniusTelevision knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean BaudrillardI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone De BeauvoirCourage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
Edward AlbertThinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W Clement StoneLove takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James BaldwinNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanI think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence NightingaleLeaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert JarvikWho feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
SophoclesPeople with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthyUp the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men.
William AllinghamBeing buried alive [greatest fear].
Brenda BlethynEvery man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis BehanFear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas HardyI fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce LeeWhen I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
John KeatsIt is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Maxwell MaltzBritish fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
Alexander McQueenMy 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz KafkaWho trusts himself to women, or to waves,
Should never hazard what he fears to lose.
John OldmixonThe meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard BachCourage is one step ahead of fear
Coleman YoungHe who doesn't fear death dies only once. [You can't die more than once can you?]
Giovanni FalconeUltimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn FergusonI am not yet comfortable with the media. I'm afraid of the unknown. I'm shy and am trying to overcome my fears.
Veronica VarekovaWhen they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.
Daniel BoorstinWhenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry MillerHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear
Florence NightingaleMan would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
Albert EinsteinThe only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred HitchcockFear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Francis QuarlesAction is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent PealeIf you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.
Peter GallagherA humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
Ramsey ClarkThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will DurantI am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
Zach BraffYou should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day
MartialAs the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions
OvidThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe Western Canada Wilderness Committee is creating papier mache monsters and phantom bogeymen as it stirs up fears about the provincial government's
George Abbott'Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.'
YodaSacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
Samuel DanielCourage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George PattonApprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion
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