It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges BernanosI can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.
Carla GuginoAlas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleFear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto EcoYou gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor RooseveltI 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 BraffIf fear is cultivated, it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.
John Paul JonesLet them hate so long as they fear (Atreus)
Lucius AcciusFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Benedict SpinozaPeople fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
Jim MorrisonToday it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell PhillipsThe more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
AristotleIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus AureliusCourage is one step ahead of fear
Coleman YoungI hope that the art of word play and people's greater verbal dexterity is not yet dead but I fear, alas, that this may be the way things go in the future.
Johnny HartIt is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Maxwell MaltzThe competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry FordPuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Henry L MenckenWe must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
Luc De VauvanarguesI know I can handle anything and I don't have a lot of fear.
Antonio FargasBeing buried alive [greatest fear].
Brenda BlethynIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare PaveseI like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Haley Joel OsmentPeople with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthyBetween the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Ivo AndricWho trusts himself to women, or to waves,
Should never hazard what he fears to lose.
John OldmixonEvery noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
MetastasioNay, why should I fear Death,
Who gives us life, and in exchange takes breath?
Frederic Lawrence KnowlesApprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion
Florence NightingaleOur fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
Jonah GoldbergWe have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
Thomas MertonWhither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
LucanusFear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas HardyFear is the child of ignorance
Herman MelvilleWhen the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honour scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert G IngersollDiscipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Claude Arien HelvetiusHate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly'Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.'
YodaYou should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day
MartialFear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving
MontaigneWho fears not to do ill fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Sir John DenhamAnd the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
BibleThe wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean De La BruyereThe most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty
Napoleon HillWhen a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace MannA 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 EcoTragedy 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.
AristotleEverytime I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
Ani DifrancoLeaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert JarvikOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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