Quotes and Sayings About Fear
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
-- A. C. Benson -
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
-- Aaron Hill -
In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
-- Abdul Kalam -
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
-- Aberjhani -
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
-- Abraham Maslow -
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
-- Adam Smith -
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
-- Aeschylus -
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Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
-- Aesop -
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.
-- Agnes de Mille -
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
-- Alan PatonSource : ALAN PATON (1968). “Cry, the Beloved Country”
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
-- Alan Watts -
Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...
-- Alanis Morissette -
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
-- Albert Bandura -
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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.
-- Albert Einstein -
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.
-- Albert Pinkham RyderSource : Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).
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When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
-- Albert Szent-GyorgyiSource : "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
-- Aldous Huxley