Famous Quotes & Sayings

Veronica Roth

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Veronica Roth

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Veronica Roth

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Veronica Roth

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

Rudyard Kipling

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Samuel Johnson

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Robertson Davies

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

Robertson Davies

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Robert Penn Warren

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

Vivien Leigh

Every single night I'm nervous.

Vivien Leigh

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Virgil

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

Virgil

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Wayne Dyer

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Wayne Dyer

Hit the delete button every time fear appears.

William Blake

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

Samuel Richardson

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

Samuel Daniel

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Salvador Dali

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

W. G. Sebald

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

W. H. Auden

Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.

W. H. Auden

the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

Wayne Dyer

The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.

Wayne Dyer

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Tove Jansson

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

Uri Geller

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

William Golding

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.