Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
LucanusFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TacitusOur fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
Jonah GoldbergLook 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 LongfellowMy biggest fear is that I'll fall over in the middle of a live routine, or that I'll forget what I'm supposed to be doing. That would be terrible.
Jan RavensIt is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges BernanosYou gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor RooseveltHe who doesn't fear death dies only once. [You can't die more than once can you?]
Giovanni FalconeNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeOur 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 FaulknerCourage is one step ahead of fear
Coleman YoungAnd 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.
BiblePuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Henry L MenckenI have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
Tim RothThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear
Jiddu KrishnamurtiOur thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak ChopraA journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
Napoleon BonaparteConsider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
Noel CowardEach sudden gust of light explains itself
as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear (Leaving Belfast)
Andrew MotionCentral Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment.
Francois BozizeFear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
Floyd PattersonHateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved
Cornelius NeposOnly one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo CoelhoIf fear is cultivated, it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.
John Paul JonesDo not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin FranklinFear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too
Ben JonsonUnpinned even by rudimentary notions of time and space, dreams float or flash by, leaving in their wake trails of unease, hopes and fears.
Stephen BrookYou should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day
MartialIt appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
Derrick BellFear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas HardyThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D RooseveltWe must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean De La BruyereI think really all of us have had our fears and doubts but we feel that the time is right. [On reforming]
Melanie ChisholmThere is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias CanettiFear is the child of ignorance
Herman MelvilleKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis StevensonThe surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
John RandolphThere is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Benedict SpinozaHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik EriksonI 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 HartThen come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind,
And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind.
Henry Jackson Van DykeThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
André GideThey hate whom they fear
EnniusWhat difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Kahlil GibranWhen 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 BoorstinMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis BaconThe fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
Jean BryantRealists do not fear the results of their study.
Fedor DostoevskyHate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril ConnollyMeanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
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