Quotes About Fear

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Mao Tse. Leigh tried to push away the horrible thoughts swimming in her head. Mao Tse was fine. She was just hiding. No one wanted to hurt her. They wanted something else.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal — and soon they'll forget my number.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

The early Greek mythologists transformed a world full of fear into a world full of beauty.

I feel very strongly that this modern fear of the home becoming non-existent can be countered only if those of us who want to be sure our little spot is really a home take very practical measures to be sure that it is just that, and not a collection of furniture sitting in some sort of enclosure being protected from wind and storm.

You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Yes, my Prince was such as they, Part of gold, and part of clay, ?Though his metal shone as bright, ?And his dross was hid from sight. He who brightest is, and best Still may fear the secret test ?That shall try his heart aright.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.

The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.

Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad.

Despite my fears and my aching loneliness, I believed without a doubt in a better world, which was adulthood or New York or Paris or love.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

And within her something was screaming: "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He knows French. And those girls that can row and everything. And me, I don't know anything. Oh, God, what'll I do?

You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life.

Whoever heard of a woman having to enter her house past a row of guns! These weren't Indian days—pioneer scalping days.