Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

Mahatma Gandhi

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

John Adams

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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.

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.

Eric Hoffer

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Eric Hoffer

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Eric Hoffer

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

The hours (after the attack) were filled with uncertainty, fear, pain and significant trauma for all involved in the tunnels and on the bus.

James Clavell

So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine. ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

James Altucher

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

James Anthony Froude

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

James Anthony Froude

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Friedrich Schiller

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Friedrich Schiller

As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.

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.

John Connolly

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

John Barrymore

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Bonham

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

Majora Carter

You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

Ronald Bailey

We don't want to say, 'I told you so,' but these are the kinds of things we have been fearful of for quite some time. There are real problems with transporting inmates to all hospitals and not having sufficient security at those hospitals.