We had to borrow Bolton Wanderers' team coach, we stayed at a Fawlty Towers hotel and the kick-off was delayed half an hour by a faulty fire alarm. I feared it wasn't our day.
Paul JewellLook not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShe was so anally retentive she couldn't sit down for fear of sucking up the furniture. [As Patsy, Ab Fab]
Joanna LumleyI realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be agressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.
Michael JordanWhatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
VirgilCourage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy BernardThose who do not steal or rob only for fear of the consequences should they get caught, are not only thieves, but cowards as well.
John A MarshallThere is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Benedict SpinozaYou can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale CarnegieI would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J G BallardIt is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerIt's a part like any other except it's shorter than a lot. [on his role in The Sum of All Fears]
Alan BatesEvery man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis BehanFear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
Gary BuseyTo be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SenecaIf you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.
Rollo ArmstrongFear is exciting for me.
Ayrton SennaThe thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
MontaigneLet us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James ThurberHe doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby BowdenI think really all of us have had our fears and doubts but we feel that the time is right. [On reforming]
Melanie ChisholmIt is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Maxwell MaltzI don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom HanksTyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William BlakeAll people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before him, and rejoice
William KetheThe optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true
James Branch CabellMental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vincent T LombardiThe fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusMy biggest fear is dying.
John PeelWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell BoveeWhen 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 MannWithout fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis MumfordWhen one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
BuddhaI 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 OsmentHow blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads. To whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams [erm quite indeed]
Bram StokerNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C S LewisRealists do not fear the results of their study.
Fedor DostoevskyIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus AureliusThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
André GideNo arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. (Leviathan)
Thomas HobbesIf fear is cultivated, it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.
John Paul JonesLet the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin DisraeliIt appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
Derrick BellWho fears not to do ill fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Sir John DenhamMan would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
Albert EinsteinDespotic conscience rules our hopes and fears
OvidThinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W Clement StonePeople 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 MorrisonThe fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
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