Quotes About Fear

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things, who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything, and I will show you someone who is insecure.

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and [if] there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.

Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.

Courage is a quietness, not martial music made Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is the truest valor to dare to live.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.