F Quotes
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“Fear is the mother of all gods.”
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“Fear is the movement of time”
“Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.”
“Fear is the number one reason why people do not take action. The divine irony is that most of the fears we experience are self-generated and born out of our own imaginings, hence the acronym False Evidence Appearing Real.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.”
Source: True You
“Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.”
“Fear is the only way to greet the devil.”
“Fear is the opponent that standing between you and next level of your life. It is the only thing that stopping you to move forward”
“Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.”
“Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.”
“Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.”
Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.”
Source: The Blue Castle
“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)
“Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.”
Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell
“Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Fear is the passion of slaves.”
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Source: Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
“Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.”
Source: The Green Brain
“Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.”
Source: The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons
“Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.”
“Fear is the possibility of freedom.”
Source: All Days Are Night
“Fear is the primary tool of the mafiya. It's how they contain their vast criminal enterprise. For the mafiya, fear is the grease in the wheel. Fear is much stronger than love | Fear lasts much longer. Love fades and is replaced by hatred and contempt. Fear lingers and brings forth other emotions such as doubt. Fear encourages procrastination and cowardice. Besides, you always hurt the ones you love. Most are too afraid to hurt the ones they fear.”
Source: Career Criminal: My Life in the Russian Mob Until the Day I Died
“Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 2
“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”
“Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.”
Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.”
“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield it or we fight it, but we cannot meet at half way.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“Fear … is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“Fear is the response to a perceived threat. Greed is the response to a perceived fear.”
Source: Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures
“Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.”
“Fear is the result of counting on men instead of leaning on God.”
“Fear is the root cause behind most of lies. And many big problems starts from lies, which can be prevented by following a simple rule. Just change Fear into Love!”
“Fear is the root of all courage.”
“Fear is the short road to death and this world,
Changed by the flux of decay:
Survival is the exception for weary men.
From the new book The Waning”
“Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status quo. That fear is disabling, One of the things we need to do as business leaders is build and nurture cultures that encourage responsible risk taking so making mistakes is OK.”
“Fear is the single biggest blocker of creativity.”
“Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.”
“Fear is the start of wisdom.”
“Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.”
“Fear is the story you tell yourself. Learn from the lesson behind your story.”
“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Short Story Collections by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and Catriona
“Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.”
“Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!”
“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”
Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh. [In Five Acts and in Verse.]
“Fear is the thief of dreams.”
Source: A Constant Suicide
“Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“Fear is the thing that shows a man who 'e really is. The 'ateful ones are pointin' fingers and layin' the blame because that's what they think it takes to survive. Those people 'ave always been there, but fear just shows the rest of us who they are, and because of that, they'll end up alone.”
Source: Waging War
“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”
“Fear is the tool of a man-made devil”