Quotes Tagged "fear"

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

So 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.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Fear has a smell, as Love does.