Quotes on Fear

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.