Fear Quotes
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My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.
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All of us fight a battle every day, but we just don’t know it. Love tries to defeat hatred. Bravery destroys fear.
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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
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The fear that goes with the writing of verse has nothing in common with the fear one experiences in the presence of the secret police. Our mysterious awe in the face of existence itself is always overridden by the more primitive fear of violence and destruction.
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I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
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The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
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I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
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I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
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...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.
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We drink our morning coffee with a drop of fear.
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Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
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Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
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The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing.
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In India, I personally believe yes, there is a clear fear of unknown; there's a lot of risk aversions in science and technology. They want predictability in everything they do, and it starts from people. It starts from investors. It starts from the regulators. You see that mindset across the society.
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God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
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The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.
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My greatest fear is speaking in public.
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It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
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If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.
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I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
