F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its scent, sometimes sensual, sometimes mystical or animal, can exude the musty and arcane smell of destiny. ("One could still feel the smell of fear" )”
“Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.”
“Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.”
“Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.”
“Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index
“Fear has denied some people the opportunity to sit at the table of success. That is why you need to address it as fast as you can.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.”
“FEAR has its Reasons,
COURAGE has Responsibility”
“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.”
Source: Collected Works
“Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.”
“Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.”
“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.”
Source: Ghost and Horror Stories
“Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.”
“Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.”
“Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Fear, heavy like lead, settled down her belly. That wasn't some engaging thriller movie you would binge on Webflix. It was real life and Opia was no hero. Sweat formed on her forehead and her fingertips grew numb from the cold wind. The silhouette became creepier the closer she moved. Her intellect screamed to turn away before she saw anything she shouldn't. But curious as she was, Opia pushed forward, thinning down the layer of fog enough to make out the details.”
Source: The Drop Dead Darlings
“Fear him, whom you hate.”
“Fear holds dominion over mortality
Only because, seeing in land and sky
So much the cause whereof no wise they know,
Men think Divinities are working there.”
Source: Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things
“Fear holds us back. Fear or love. That's all there is. We make all our decisions based on these two things.”
“Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.”
“fear . . . I think that death from fear, or madness from fear, must sum up in a second of time the total of all the most awful sensations it is possible for a man to know.”
Source: THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
“Fear, if left alone, becomes the finger of death that awaits us at some point or every point in our lives. It does not kill us all at once but assassinates every good version of ourselves until we are left bitter, lifeless, and regretful.”
Source: I Need Some Time To Think
“Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit”
“Fear + Ignorance: Death, amidst Life.”
“Fear impedes your dreams, robs you of bravery, and steals countless tomorrows.”
“Fear in its role as a protector is good when you have someone waiting at home and you don't want their lives disrupted because of your own adventurous spirit ..”
“Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)
“Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.”
“Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.”
“Fear in the world first created the gods.
[Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]”
“Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else.”
Source: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
“Fear, inherently, is not meant to limit you. Fear is the brain’s way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome.”
Source: The essence of trading psychology in one skill
“Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.”
Source: Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
“Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.”
“Fear invites imposter syndrome to the party to stop you from leveling up, and to make you doubt everything, in hopes of stopping you from being the badass you are destined to be.”
Source: Fear Is My Homeboy: How to Slay Doubt, Boss Up, and Succeed on Your Own Terms
“Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.”
“Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.”
Source: I Am Not A Serial Killer
“Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.”
Source: Disciples of Fortune
“Fear is a bastard. Fear is an attention whore. I want to ask fear if it has mommy issues, because that’s the only reason I can think why it needs attention so bad. I want fear to get Parkinson’s. Then maybe fear will know how it feels to be on the run from something it doesn’t understand.”
Source: Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass
“Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.”
“Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.”
“Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.”
“Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.”
“Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.”
“Fear is a byproduct of insecurity, when an individual fears change, resist change, they are just making it harder for them where the world will keep spinning!”
“FEAR is a CAGE in which the MAJORITY are Locked In.”