Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Jon Ronson

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear.

Nora Roberts

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

Nora Roberts

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

Nicolaus Copernicus

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

Walter Landor

The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional

Sathya Baba

The greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.

The great fear was that the Willamette Valley might become another Southern California.

Joe Girardi

The great thing about Joe was that he let me say anything I wanted and I was never fearful of saying anything; that's the greatest guy you can work for. Joe's a very trusting guy. One of the big things I learned about him was his patience and the importance of knowing people.

Jonathan Ames

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Wentworth Miller

You've got 150 years of fear and violence and pain soaked into those walls, but the overall mood there is one of despair.

And now the winds are very strong and the people fear their temporary shelters will just fly away.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Butch Harmon

These guys have no fear? Not to them, it's not; they've been doing it all their lives.

This has been marketed as a very positive thing for Maine. It's been turned around, and that takes some of the fear out of it for policymakers in other states.

This has put the fear of God into people.

Lord Byron

All is to be feared where all is to be lost

Eric Hoffer

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

Philip Sidney

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

Philip Sidney

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

Paulo Coelho

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

Paulo Coelho

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

Paulo Coelho

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Paulo Coelho

I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Marjane Satrapi

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Marianne Moore

The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul."

Max Lucado

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.