Quotes on Fear

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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.

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.