Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy BernardAnd without fear the lawless roads
Ran wrong through all the land.
Edwin MuirThe absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Samuel DanielWho fears not to do ill fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Sir John DenhamI suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John MortimerThey hate whom they fear
Quintus EnniusIt is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges BernanosFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Benedict SpinozaAs you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Christina Of SwedenIt's a part like any other except it's shorter than a lot. [on his role in The Sum of All Fears]
Alan BatesFear is my vessel, when I frown he flies;
A hundred times in life a coward dies
John MarstonJust remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian AndersonA book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto EcoOur tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William FaulknerHow strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonaldAlas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleRealists do not fear the results of their study.
Fedor DostoevskyAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanWhen I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
John KeatsDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand RussellFear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
Gary BuseyThe headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
Cyril ConnollyYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric HofferWe have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
Thomas MertonThey hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy
Thomas GrayFear of destruction and imminent danger are those that will ultimately drive us forward onto survival in the future.
William FloydIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare PaveseEverytime I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
Ani DifrancoTis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Publilius SyrusA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
AristotleFor in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice WalkerFor fools rush in where angels fear to tread (An Essay on Criticism)
Alexander PopeThe fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusThose who are truly brave, shall never live in fear.
Dwayne JohnsonFear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel ButlerHe doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby BowdenTo overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliamsHate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril ConnollyDiscipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Claude Arien HelvetiusThe Western Canada Wilderness Committee is creating papier mache monsters and phantom bogeymen as it stirs up fears about the provincial government's
George AbbottIt is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Maxwell MaltzThe comedians greatest fear is not that the crowd is not enjoying things, but that even when we change the material the crowd is not interested. Though when that happens perhaps it tells you something!
Steve HarveyToday it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell PhillipsDon't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe RuthWhen the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honour scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert G IngersollPuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Henry L MenckenMy 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz KafkaTo be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SenecaTragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
AristotleFear and hope are alike underneath. [In that they are both emotions]
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