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Quotes About Fear

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.
~ Jose Rizal
I fear for my books.
~ Jose Rizal
The example of others can encourage those who only fear to begin.
~ Jose Rizal
Se detuvo, sospechando algo terrible, tomó entre sus manos un poco de mar. Y lo temido ocurrió. En el hueco de sus manos, el mar dejaba de ser azul, era sólo agua transparente. Acortar la distancia para destruir el encanto.
~ José Sbarra
Courage waits; fear will seek.
~ Jose Bergamin
Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.
~ Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.
Americans have discovered fear.
~ Jose Saramago
There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one's dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one's life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.
~ Josef Å kvorecký
A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't.
~ Josef Å kvorecký
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.
~ Josef Pieper
Pensé que era fácil empezar. Abrí un cuaderno, comprado expresamente. Preparé un plan, hice una especie de esquema. [...] Pero inmediatamente sentí el temor.
~ Josefina Vicens
El miedo al cambio social fue desde el principio la base de la solidaridad de «Occidente».
~ Josep Fontana
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.
~ Joseph Addison
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.
~ Joseph Addison
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
~ Joseph Addison
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
~ Joseph Addison
A person terrified with the imagination of spectres is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.
~ Joseph Addison
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
~ Joseph Addison
Cato Lose not a thought on me, I'm out of danger. Heaven will not leave me in the victor's hand. Caesar shall never say, I conquered Cato. But, oh! my friends, your safety fills my heart With anxious thoughts: a thousand secret terrors 115 Rise in my soul: how shall I save my friends! 'Tis now, O Caesar, I begin to fear thee.
~ Joseph Addison
9 Then I said: 'I am afraid of this place and cannot stand to look at it.!' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said to me: 'Enoch, why are you so afraid?' 10 And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And he said to me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'
~ Joseph B. Lumpkin
Not Brangien who was faithful, not Brangien, but themselves had these lovers to fear, for hearts so stricken will lose their vigilance. Love pressed them hard, as thirst presses the dying stag to the stream; love dropped upon them from high heaven, as a hawk slipped after long hunger falls right upon the bird. And love will not be hidden.
~ Joseph Bédier
Nu de Brangien cea credincioas?, ci de ei însu?i au a se teme iubi?ii. Îns? cum s? stea de veghe inimile lor bete de dragoste? Iubirea îi îmbolde?te, a?a cum setea îl repede pe cerb c?tre râu, la ananghie, ori tot a?a precum, dup? o lung? înfometare, ?oimul slobozit se las? pe prad?. Vai! dragostea nu se poate t?nui.
~ Joseph Bédier
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Like most of those who seek to harm the weak, he's a coward at heart.
~ Joseph Bruchac