Quotes on Fear

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.