Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
~By Camille Claudel ~
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
~By Clara Schumann ~
My greatest fear: repetition.
~By Max Frisch ~
The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness.
~By Larry Williams ~
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
~By Edward Albert ~
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
~By Maggie Kuhn ~
I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
~By Howard Coble ~
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
~By Lord Kelvin ~
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
~By Ryan White ~
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.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
~By Paul Harris ~
While there's life, there's fear.
~By Mason Cooley ~
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
~By Lloyd C. Douglas ~
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
~By Douglas Wood ~
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
~By Anatole France ~
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
~By Roger Craig ~
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
~By Frederick Smith ~
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Those who own much have much to fear.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
~By Henry Beston ~
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
~By Bram Stoker ~
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
~By Samuel Ullman ~
Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
~By James Thurber ~
If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.
~By Jody Watley ~
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
~By Lou Henry Hoover ~
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
~By Luis Gutierrez ~
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
~By George W. Bush ~
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
~By Simone Weil ~
All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.
~By Tony Shalhoub ~
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
~By Joseph Chilton Pearce ~
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
~By Horace ~
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
~By David Duchovny ~
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
~By Anwar Sadat ~
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
~By Neil Jordan ~
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
~By Abraham Crowley ~
Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
~By Bill Owens ~
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
~By Nick Nolte ~
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
~By Arthur Wellesley ~
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
~By Katharine Butler Hathaway ~
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.
~By Linda McCartney ~
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
~By Jack Scalia ~
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.
~By LL Cool J ~
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
~By Shirley Jackson ~
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
~By Barack Obama ~
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
~By Paul Sweeney ~
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
~By David Sarnoff ~
Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
~By George W. Bush ~
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
~By Adrienne Clarkson ~
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
~By Wellington Mara ~
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
~By James K. Polk ~
Action conquers fear.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
~By Virgil ~
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
~By Albert Ellis ~
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
~By Queen Christina ~
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
~By Jane Byrne ~
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks.
~By Norm Dicks ~
Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.
~By Ben McKenzie ~
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