Top 1200 Do Not Fear Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

To fear retirement is to fear life.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

The understanding of fear cures fear.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

To fear love is to fear life.

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

I understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

The best way to neutralise fear is by laughing. You can see the dynamics of this in action when people watch a horror movie. You'll notice that immediately after a good fright, following the sceams of terror - which is the point of maximum experience of fear - people will always laugh immediately afterward, as this is the natural way to release the fear. By laughing at something you also take away the perception that it has any power over you.

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I believe that the voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart. Be still and listen to it. If it speaks of love and compassion for others, for the world itself, it just might be the voice of God - or a reasonable facsimile. If, however, it snarls with fear of the unknown, fear of losing what you have or of not getting what you want, then it just might be the voice of Rupert Murdoch - or a reasonable facsimile.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

You can't play with fear in football. There is a lot of respect - you have respect for everybody, the ones on top and the bottom - but never fear.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Every fear is fear of death.

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don't remember a lot of stuff in my career.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

Fear is fear of fear, I think.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

We fear our enemy but the bigger and real fear is that of a fake friend who is sweetest to your face and most vile behind your back.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.