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| "Fear always springs from ignorance." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
| "Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered
great loss. And in our grief and anger, we have found our mission
and our moment. Freedom and fear are at war. The
advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the
great hope of every time, now depends on us." |
| -- George W. Bush, US President |
|
| "He that fears not the future may enjoy the
present." |
| -- Thomas Fuller |
|
| "Nothing is to be feared but fear." |
| -- Sir Francis Bacon
(1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman |
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"There are times when fear is good.
It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is
advantage in the wisdom won from pain." |
| -- Ęschylus (525-456 BC), Greek
tragic dramatist |
|
| "Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my
intuition." |
| -- Hugh Prather |
|
| "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in
fear." |
| -- Aesop (620-560 BC), Greek
fabulist |
|
| "Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe
more." |
| -- Swedish Proverb |
|
"There are two levers for moving men: interest and
fear."
|
| -- Napolean Bonaparte
(1769-1821), French general, Napoleon I of France |
|
"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived
wisely."
-- Buddha (563?-483? BC), Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism |
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| "He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every
day surmount a fear." |
| -- Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44
BC), Roman general, historian, emperor |
|
| "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never
fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject
all help are you freed." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism |
|
| "I have built my organization upon fear." |
| -- Al Capone (1899-1947), U.S.
Gangster |
| "When you have faults, do not fear to
abandon them." |
| -- Confucius (c. 551-479?
BC), Chinese sage |
|
| "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be
understood." |
| -- Marie Curie (1867-1934),
Polish-born French chemist |
|
| "Fears can be our guide if we begin to
understand them. More directly than our dreams, fears point us to
parts of our self that are locked awaiting a key. If we understand
our fears, they are prone to evaporate into thin air, revealing
rooms unlocked and laden with riches for the taking." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American
writer |
|
| "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on
sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man
would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of
punishment and hope of reward after death." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
|
| "Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blind-folded fear." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
3rd US President |
|
| "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear
to negotiate." |
| -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(1917-63), 35th US President |
|
| "Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the
future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without
fear." |
| -- Abraham Maslow (1908-70),
American psychologist |
|
| "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." |
| -- Babe Ruth, American baseball
player |
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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of
unhappiness."
|
| -- Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.),
Legendary Chinese philosopher |
|
| "Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then
fear." |
| -- Blaise Pascal (1623-62),
French philosopher, mathematician |
|
| "Better hazard once than always be in
fear." |
| -- Thomas Fuller |
|
| "Worry is a form of fear." |
| -- Bertrand Russell |
|
| "He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of
string." |
| -- Persian Proverb |
|
| "Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and
man from all sides." |
| -- Russian Proverb |
|
| "He that is afraid to shake the dice will
never throw a six." |
| -- Chinese Proverb |
|
| "The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the
storm, and the trees the wind." |
| -- Virgil |
|
| "We only really face up to ourselves when
we are afraid." |
| -- Thomas Bernhard |
|
| "All forms of fear produce fatigue." |
| -- Bertrand Russell |
|
| "Fear is the absence of faith." |
| -- Paul Tillich |
|
| "They can conquer who believe they can. He has
not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount
a fear." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American
philosopher |
|
| "Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool
in destroying the soul of an individual --and the soul of a
people." |
| -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1970), British
philosopher, mathematician |
|
| "He who fears something gives it power over
him." |
| -- Moorish Proverb |
|
| "Fear can, though it is not God, create
something from nothing." |
| -- Caspar de Aguilar |
|
| "Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which
rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of
danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying." |
| -- Henry Ward Beecher |
|
| "Don't let the fear of the time it will
take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The
time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time
to the best possible use." |
| -- Earl Nightingale |
|
| "This is all you have. This is not a dry
run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your
fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back
later." |
| -- Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
|
| "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is
only to be understood." |
| -- Marie Curie |
|
| "We have to start teaching ourselves not to
be afraid." |
| -- William Faulkner |
|
| "Do the thing you fear, and the death of
fear is certain." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
| "Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a
lot." |
| -- Malay Proverb |
|
| "Keep your fears to yourself, but share
your courage with others." |
| -- Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-94),
British writer |
|
| "We
gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in
which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that
which we think we cannot." |
| -- Eleanor Roosevelt |
|
| "America was not built on fear. America was built on
courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at
hand." |
| -- Harry S. Truman (1884-1972),
33rd US President |
|
| "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of
a loss of power." |
| -- John Ernst Steinbeck
(1902-68), American writer |
|
|
"Fear is the main
source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer
fear is the beginning of wisdom."
|
| -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1970),
British philosopher, mathematician |
|
| "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." |
| -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882-1945), 32nd US President |
|
| "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but
around in awareness." |
| -- James Grover Thurber
(1894-1961), American writer, cartoonist, illustrator |
|
| "The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned
how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome,
stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping." |
|
-- Charles R. Swindoll |
|
| "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant
never taste death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It
seems to me the most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death is a
necessary end, will come when it will come." |
| -- William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), English playwright, poet |
|
| "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is." |
| -- German Proverb |
|
| "There are times when fear is good.
It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls." |
| -- Aeschylus |
|
| "Just as courage imperils life, fear
protects it." |
| -- Leonardo da Vinci |
|
| "Nurture
strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not
distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of
fatigue and loneliness." |
| --
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945), American poet,
lawyer |
|
| "Fear makes us feel our humanity." |
| -- Benjamin Disraeli |
|
| "Fear is static that prevents me from
hearing myself." |
| -- Samuel Butler |
|
| "Any device whatever by which one frees
himself from fear is a natural good." |
| -- Epicurus |
|
| "He who is not everyday conquering some
fear has not learned the secret of life." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American
writer, philosopher |
|
| "The one permanent emotion of the inferior
man is fear-- fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.
What he wants beyond everything is safety." |
| -- H. L. Menken |
|
| "No passion so effectively robs the mind of
its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." |
| -- Edmund Burke |
|
| "Fear is the most damnable, damning thing
to human personality in the whole world." |
| -- William Faulkner |
|
| "The unknown is what it is. And to be
frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing
dreams, illusions, wars, peace, hate, all that. Unknown is what it
is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing." |
| -- John Lennon |
|
| "The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself-- nameless, un reasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes
needed efforts to convert retreat onto advance." |
| -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd
American President |
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