Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

Byron Katie

We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A scared world needs a fearless church.

Chogyam Trungpa

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Chin-Ning Chu

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

Cheryl Richardson

How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.

Charles Lamb

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Charles Lamb

Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.

Chanakya

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

Charles Manson

Fear of vikings build castles.

Charles Inglis

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

Bob Barr

Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.

William Shakespeare

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

William Shakespeare

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

William Shakespeare

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

William Shakespeare

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

William Shakespeare

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Andrea Bocelli

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

Norman Reedus

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

We've always said that fear is the main problem. And that needs to be allayed.

We respected him, but we (weren't) in fear of him.

Betty Ford

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

Benjamin Whichcote

Fear is prophetical of evil.

We fear this could mean harvests will be confiscated. It would kill the people.

We fear there's an overwhelming likelihood some people will be left out in the cold.

We fear that the motivation was identity theft but we're hoping that we stopped it in time.

We fear that doing what they want will require every router and every switch in an IT system to be replaced.

We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

Katy Perry

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.