Quotes on Fear

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

A man who has been in danger,_x000D_ _x000D_ When he comes out of it forgets his fears,_x000D_ _x000D_ And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.