Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Barclay

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Stefan Zweig

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Thomas Hobbes

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Victor Hugo

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Sallust

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]

Saadi

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

Saadi

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

Saadi

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.

Roland Emmerich

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

Sukarno

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear-fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

Stonewall Jackson

Never take counsel of your fears.

Steve Jobs

Don't be afraid, you can do it.

Steve Earle

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Peace Pilgrim

we tend to attract the things we fear.

Peace Pilgrim

Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.

Peter Travers

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

Pema Chodron

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

Peter S. Beagle

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Pearl White

I have actually gotten to like fear ...

Phyllis Bottome

to everything there is an end - except fear.

Philip Pullman

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is a great instructor.

Lady Bird Johnson

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Viktor E. Frankl

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

Viktor E. Frankl

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor E. Frankl

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Vanna Bonta

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.