Fear Quotes - Page 8

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

I don’t know which I should fear more . . . death or life. I wish I could be done with fear.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.

Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.

Fight your fears with fierce and your life becomes fabulous.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.

Laughter is poison to fear.