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Quotes About Fear

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
~ Erma Bombeck
If you are a worrywart you can't be a ninja. You can't rise up and fight when the weight of the world is pressing you down. Your family needs you to be sane and not bogged down in fear.
~ Anna M. Aquino
It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.
~ Martha N. Beck
Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
~ Kenneth Oppel, The Nest
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
~ William Shakespeare
Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
~ Thomas Hardy
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
~ Robert E. Lee
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
~ Douglas MacArthur
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
~ Mark Twain
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
~ Hermann Goring
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
~ John Lennon
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
~ Jane Addams
Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.
~ Michael Faraday
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
~ Guy Finley
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
~ Oscar Romero
Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
~ Marianne Williamson
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
~ Charles de Foucauld
Horror alone brings peace of mind.
~ Ernest Becker
I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.
~ Louise Hay