We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean De La BruyereAnd 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.
Honore De BalzacFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
Neale WalschThe only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred HitchcockThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will DurantAction 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 PealeMen 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 BaconOur thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak ChopraLook 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 LongfellowOver the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Matt BluntThe Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon JohnsonThe 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
MontaigneListen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard BachThe most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William BurnhamTragedy 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.
Aristotle'Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.'
YodaI 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 RothIf I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira GandhiI am not yet comfortable with the media. I'm afraid of the unknown. I'm shy and am trying to overcome my fears.
Veronica VarekovaMy 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 RavensHow 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 StokerAs 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
OvidNecessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favourite of fortune.
Francis QuarlesNever take counsel of your fears.
Andrew JacksonMy biggest fear is dying.
John PeelSlasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy shit, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.
Tara ReidThere is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George PattonWe 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 JewellI 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 MortimerI fear explanations explanatory of things explained
Abraham LincolnHe who doesn't fear death dies only once. [You can't die more than once can you?]
Giovanni FalconeA man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.
Stephan CraneHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear
Florence NightingaleHere lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh (of John Knox)
James DouglasCourage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
David Ben-GurionMental 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 LombardiToday it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell PhillipsOur fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed [very cheerful!]
Jim JonesBritish 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 McQueenHow often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies.
Henry MelvilleThe weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia BrowneAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerFear of destruction and imminent danger are those that will ultimately drive us forward onto survival in the future.
William FloydPatrick [Swayze] was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace. Gorgeous and strong, he was a real cowboy with a tender heart. He was fearless and insisted on always doing his own stunts, so it was not surprising to me that the war he waged on his cancer was so courageous and dignified
Jennifer GreyAll 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 KetheNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C S LewisThinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W Clement StoneFor 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.
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