Fear (7)

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave. - Louis J. Halle

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Men imagine that celestial bodies are divine yet ascribe to them purposes inconsistent with divinity; and they anticipate eternal suffering after death. Peace of mind follows freedom from such fears, and will be gained if we trust to our immediate feelings and sensations. - The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. - Chief Aupumut, Mohican
When life demands more of people than they demand of life- as is ordinarily the case- what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death. - Tom Robbins

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. - Lactantius

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. - Aristotle

Yeah, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley. - Joel Rosenberg

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by there nature, but by your approach. - Jewel Kiltcher (Singer)

I think guns do kill people, though I suspect hate-mongering white supremacist groups that trade in fear and ignorance have something to do with it as well. - Peter Hyman

That feeling isn't fear, it's just telling you to MOVE!! - Rancid

All forms of fear produce fatigue. - Bertrand Russell

Fear is the prison of the heart.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

If a man harbours 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 of the core of the restoration of health. - Max Lerner

As fear is close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness. - Jawaharlar Nehru

A man who is afraid will do anything. - Jawaharlar Nehru