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Quotes About Fear

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.
~ Steven Erikson
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
~ Clive James
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?
~ Watchman Nee
if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger
~ Swami Vivekananda
In enjoyment is the fear of disease, In high birth, the fear of losing caste, In wealth, the fear of tyrants, In honour, the fear of losing it, In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. (In Search of God and
~ Swami Vivekananda
As soon as I begin to feel that I am separate from this universe, then first comes fear, and then comes misery.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Take risks in life, if u win u can lead, if u loose u can guide
~ Swami Vivekananda
Fear comes from the selfish idea of cutting one's self off from the Universe.
~ Swami Vivekananda
all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.
~ Swami Vivekananda
the idea of supernatural being may rouse to a certain extent the power of action in man, But it also brings spiritual decay. It brings dependence; it brings fear; it brings superstition . It degenerates into a horrible belief in the natural weakness of man.there is no supernatural, says the Yogi, but there are in nature gross manifestations and subtle manifestations.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. ... it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? - Ignorance of our own nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
F ear is death Fear is sin Fear is hell Fear is unrighteousness Fear is wrong life All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear This
~ Swami Vivekananda
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
~ Swedish Proverb
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is that it forces us to think and talk and feel in terms of abstractions—those "communists" this time, those "fascists" last time. But those we are fighting and killing are people—men, women and children—not political, geographic or economic abstractions. They are, in the main, as decent and fearful and confused as we are. And they regard us as abstractions as much as we do them.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The sullen workman who is afraid of being imposed upon is secretly convinced of his own inferiority--when he has to say, or think, "I'm as good as any man," he doesn't quite believe it himself.
~ Sydney J. Harris
All love relationships are controlled by an element of fear—that of acting, or becoming, unworthy of the loved one's approbation.
~ Sydney J. Harris
In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.
~ Sydney Smith
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
~ Sydney Smith
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
~ Sydney Smith
Partial Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage". Full Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort".
~ Sydney Smith
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
~ Sydney Smith