F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”
“Fear drives the wretched to prayer”
“Fear drives you and makes you better.”
“Fear drowns more men than water. You can feel it, but don't let it choke you.”
Source: Spellbound Under The Spanish Moss: A Southern Tale of Magic
“Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.”
“Fear envelops bones like new skin,
envelops blood with night’s skin,
the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet -
it is not your hair but the terror in your head,
like long hair made of vertical nails,
and what you see are not shattered streets,
but rather, within you, your own crushed walls,
your frustrated infinity, again the city comes
crashing down: in your silence, only water’s threat
is heard, and in the water
drowned horses gallop through your death.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“Fear equaled power. Elgon now knew that kindness equaled loyalty, and he would fight every fiery bone in his body to see justice done.”
Source: Once I Knew
“Fear exists because we do not have faith.”
“Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane.”
Source: The Zahir
“Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.”
“Fear, f-e-a-r, is:
False
Evidence
Appearing
Real”
“Fear fades. Overthinking stops. Regret disappears. All when you take action.”
Source: Amplify Your Brand, Social Media, and Influence: Your Playbook to Elevate Your Presence, Connect with Millions, and Build a Profitable Personal Brand
“Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave. ("Jane Brown's Body")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“Fear feeds the imagination.”
“Fear first created the gods.”
Source: The Life of Reason
“Fear first made gods in the world.”
Source: L207n Statius Ii
“Fear focuses the mind.”
“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”
“Fear follows us all our lives; that is the human condition. Fear sometimes catches up to us; that is our occasional predicament. Fear never has to stop us; that is the purpose of our work.”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.”
“FEAR: For your Every Amazing Reward.”
“Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!”
“Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.”
“Fear gets feverish, attain such height.
Haters go blind, burn so bright.
Courage isn't absence of fear,
courage is to overcome fear.
Birds get jealous, fly to such heights.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.”
Source: Notebooks
“Fear God and not men. For Jesus was a man and not a woman.”
“Fear God and work hard.”
Source: David Livingstone: Missionary to Africa
“Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.”
“Fear God who has power to throw you into the hell fire in your rebellion to do what is right.”
“Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.”
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century
“Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.”
“Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks.”
“Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.”
“Fear gone, there can be no hatred.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge”
Source: The Gilded Wolves
“Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.”
Source: Silver Girl
“Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.”
Source: Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom
“Fear grips Ajax. He steps forward from his station with the Olympics his hand outstretched imploring me to stay safe on my knees in Atalantia’s cage with him. Instead I stand.”
Source: Light Bringer
“Fear guides more than gratitude.”
“Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume
“Fear had driven two enemies into each other's arms and he smiled at that thought. 'They fear me more than they do each other and that is good' he thought.”
Source: Honored Enemy
“Fear had frozen her, blanketing her mind, and she'd let it do so, let it master her, so that by the time her father's neck snapped, it had been too late.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.”
Source: Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-term Investment Strategies
“Fear has a hard time coexisting with action. When there's action, there's no fear. When there's fear, there's no action.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.”
“Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There's heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse. And there is coppery fear, drawn tight as the strings of a violin, quavering on one single note that cannot possibly be sustained for a single second longer—but goes on and on and on, the tension before the crash of cymbals, the brassy challenge of the horns, the threatening rumble of the kettle drums. That's the kind of fear I felt. Horrible, clutching tension that left the coppery flavor of blood on my tongue. Fear of the creatures in the darkness around me, of my own weakness, the stolen power the Nightmare had torn from me. And fear for those around me, for the folk who didn't have the power I had.”
Source: Grave Peril
“Fear has a smell, as love does.”
Source: Surfacing
“fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.”