Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis D. Brandeis

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Lord Chesterfield

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Lord Chesterfield

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Lord Chesterfield

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

Gail Carson Levine

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

Fridtjof Nansen

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Fred Willard

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Og Mandino

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Norman Mailer

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

Orrin Hatch

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards" [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]

Orison Swett Marden

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

Orison Swett Marden

We lend power to the things we fear!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Norman Vincent Peale

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Norman Vincent Peale

There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

Emile Zola

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile M. Cioran

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Emile M. Cioran

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Emile M. Cioran

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Epicurus

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

Epicurus

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Epictetus

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

Epictetus

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Elmer Davis

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Herta Muller

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

Henry Ford

One who fears failure limits his activities.