We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.
The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.
Fundamentalism is rooted in fear, and it's another reason I'm interested in the horror genre, because I know the fear that fundamentalism is built upon.
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.
Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.
'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.
Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.
Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.
Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour.
As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.
The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.
Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
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.
Whenever you scream there is a lot of mixed feelings of excitement and fear. In fear when you scream, psychologically, you feel relieved.
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements:
fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality.
My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.
My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.
The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.
A lot of it is mental - you have to not fear your opponent. That's the number one thing, first off. Don't underestimate anybody, but don't fear anybody.
Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong.Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear!
I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
I fear human beings, because we cannot predict the swings of a human being. They are capable of doing anything. I really fear that.
I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
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