Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Waitley

Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

Deb Caletti

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Edgar Cayce

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

Ed Wood

You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider. The Earth people who can think are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.

Elizabeth May

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

Eliza Haywood

most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass ...

Edwin Markham

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

Edmund Waller

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

Bertrand Russell

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Carol Shields

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

Carlos Castaneda

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

We have no fear we won't have enough snow to stay open through Memorial Day Weekend, and there's always the possibility we'll open for the Fourth of July. Right now the possibilities are endless.

Agnes de Mille

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

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.

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.

Katie Featherston

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

Kenneth Fisher

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.

Pat Roberts

When we do, then the people of Iraq will no longer live in fear of his return. ... You can see it in their faces, you can hear it in their voices.

When we first got to him, with his color, we feared he might not make it.

Edna O'Brien

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Edna O'Brien

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Benjamin Franklin

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.