“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Quotes about fear
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“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
“He that hopes no good fears no ill.”
“The mark of fear is not easily removed.”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.”
“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.”
“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
“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.”
“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.”
“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”
“The thing we fear we bring to pass.”
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”