Quotes about fear
fear learning essence
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours. Marcel Proust
fear men evil
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him. Joseph Addison
fear trying path
...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them. Jose Saramago
fear thinking people
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
fear mean race
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
fear smell knowing
I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it. Jo Nesbo
fear films full last personal year
The last year has been more full of fear than ever before... but on the personal level, each of my films is a little monument.
fear greek-poet
To him who is in fear everything rustles. Sophocles
fear
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
fear justice love men simply suffering
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
fear fed inflation main markets remained strong worried
The main fear that inflation remained strong and the Fed would be worried by it hasn't materialized and markets are relieved.
fear
The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism. Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
fear frightened imagination
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
fearless draws ahimsa
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence? Mahatma Gandhi
fear men desperation
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber
fear mistake judgment
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. James Stewart
fear quitting excuse
Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse. Norman Vincent Peale
fear moving two
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.
fear fate animal
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 Zola
fear real heart
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
fear fearless
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
fear inspire dread
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
fear natural devices
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good. Epicurus
fear causes done
Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
fear poverty should
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. Epictetus
fear men views
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
fear scare firsts
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. Elmer Davis
fear fell helped officers rulers
And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
fear night sea
Should poor souls fear a shade or night, Who came sure from a sea of light? Or since those drops are all sent back So sure to thee, that none doth lack, Why should frail flesh doubt any more That what God takes, He'll not restore? Henry Vaughan
fear land water
"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
fear light unbroken
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.
fear sleep and-love
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear. Herta Muller
fear failure limits
One who fears failure limits his activities. Henry Ford