Quotes About Fear

Success is as dangerous as failure,

threatened. As late as 1775, townsmen within twenty miles of the sea were urged to carry arms to church lest godless British raiding parties surprise them while at worship. After the service, the men left the meeting first—a regional folkway that continued long after its military origins had been forgotten.

This relationship created intense feelings of anxiety and fear among the "common folk," in a manner that is not easy for people of another world to understand.

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

It hung heavily albeit secretly over the internal calculation of Democratic leaders of the period. But of course it was never discussed in the major newspapers and magazine articles that analyzed policy making in Vietnam. It was a secret subject, reflecting secret fears.

The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

she had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.

Those years [as the war progressed] would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose in government, the advocates of force were always better organized, seemed more numerous and seemed to have both logic and fear on their side, and that in fending them off in his own government, a President would need all the help he possibly could get, not the least of which should be a powerful Secretary of State.

Is there anything worse than being trapped in a dream?

Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.

There's something visceral about a storm in the night, how it tugs at the eaves and rattles the windows like some beast trying to get in.

The seal, the Holy Spirit, is God's fear-defeating, peace-giving promise to us, the assurance of our own salvation.

Honor is a contagion deep as fear

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are, therefore, the true sources of Superstition.

What age or period of life is the most addicted to superstition? The weakest and most timid. What sex? The same answer must be given.

I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who not being able to mingle and unite in society, has been expell'd all human commerce, and left utterly abandon'd and disconsolate. Fain wou'd I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth; but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

This ´world´ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer. With this amnesia came the phenomenon we call fear, an expression of All Possibility that cannot manifest within the balance of Oneness. Fear only comes with the illusion of division and separation when consciousness perceives itself as part and not the whole. Fear is the shadow of illusory disconnection.

The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think.

In 1946, Bertrand Russell, a friend of Einstein, said it was necessary to use the fear of nuclear weapons to force all nations to give up their sovereignty and submit to the dictatorship of the United Nations.11