The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Dont fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have might have and should have.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate…. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant to be gorgeous talented and fabulous. Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesnt serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others wont feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us. And as we let our light shine we consciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically liberates others.
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears for theres no risk of accident for someone whos dead.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
If you listen to your fears you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
They hate whom they fear.
I steer my bark with hope in the head leaving fear astern.
I myself have educated myself.
Where fear is present wisdom cannot be.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions desires and fears is more than a king.
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
The fear?s as bad as falling.
Fear … is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
GHOST n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
Dont fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have might have and should have.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
We love the things we love for what they are.
They that worship God merely from fear Would worship the devil too if he appear.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
Never take counsel of your fears.
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Fear is natures warning signal to get busy.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate…. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant to be gorgeous talented and fabulous. Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesnt serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others wont feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us. And as we let our light shine we consciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically liberates others.
As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others.
To overcome a fear here?s all you have to do: realize the fear is there and do the action you fear anyway.
The thing I fear most is fear.
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist knows it.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Power does not corrupt men. Fools however if they get into a position of power corrupt power.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts … perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Better be killed than frightened to death.