Quotes about fear
fear refusal persistent
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. Dorothy Thompson
fear self levels
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. Don DeLillo
fear flower
since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid e. e. cummings
fear eye gun
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. Douglas Horton
fear doors heaven
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
fear action terrorism
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
fear fence highest
Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols
fear thinking wish
When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish David Mamet
fear wish
Every fear hides a wish.
fear taken long
Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope David Archuleta
fear scare realizing
...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.
fear eye matter
That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't. David Wroblewski
fear may enough
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough. David Lynch
fear people creative
Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.
fear brave secret
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business. David Halberstam
fear men desire
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. Dan Brown
fear real fall
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Dalai Lama
fear people knows
People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike. Dolly Parton
fear mean acting
All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid. Desmond Tutu
fear doubt
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. Debbie Macomber
fear opportunity giving
Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place? Andy Stanley
fear cowardice worst
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. Andre Gide
fear sea islands
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. Aneurin Bevan
fear future men
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France
fear men evil
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility. Anais Nin
fear real creating
He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. Amanda Peet
fear-of-death
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light. Anne Carson
fear eye looks
If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump. Andrew Vachss
fear thinking quality
I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality. Andrew Wyeth
fear believe writing
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money. Chuck Palahniuk
fear cutting inheritance
When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right. Christopher Paolini
fear fretting
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
fear mind sanctuary
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.