| Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. — Michael Pritchard Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson Whatever you fear most has no power — it is your fear that has the power. — Oprah Winfrey Adversity does teach who your real friends are. — Lois McMaster Bujold There is no reason to leave stones unturned, except fear of the unknown, which is of course just another stone. — Bill Purdin Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. — Malayan Proverb If you don’t risk anything you risk even more. — Erica Jong Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information. Your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. — Marilyn Ferguson When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. — Henry David Thoreau Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. — Moliere It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. — J. K. Rowling Worry is a misuse of imagination. — Dan Zadra Evil men draw together. — Bill Purdin The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance — Frankin Delano Roosevelt Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. — Nick Diamos Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. — Benjamin Franklin If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? — Shantideva Turning away from danger is the best way to ensure our demise. — Brian Germain People who make excuses cause all of the world’s woes, or, at best, just make them worse. — Bill Purdin You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt Fear is the path to the Dark Side; fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. — Yoda, Star Wars Episode 1 There are no devils in Hell, they are all here. — William Shakespeare You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. — Eric Hoffer Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. — Proverbs 26:2 It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle Often fear of one evil leads us into a worse. — NIcholas Boileau-Despresaux The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared. — Lidwig Borne No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke The password to hell: “Poor me.” The password to heaven: “For you.” — Bill Purdin Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. — Marie Curie If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. — Lloyd Cassel Douglas Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my hand into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me. The trouble is that we often die many times before death overtakes us. — Mahatma Gandhi There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. — Andre Gide We must face what we fear; that is the case at the core of the restoration of health. — Max Lerner He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon I As fear is close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness. — Jawaharlar Nehru A man who is afraid will do anything. — Jawaharlar Nehru The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful. — Bertrand Arthur William Russell Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished. — Bertrand Arthur William Russell Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair. — David Seabury Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. — Voltaire |
