F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.”
“Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.”
“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.”
“Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.”
“Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."
Proverbs 1:7 NLT”
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty?”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“Fear of the right things, in the right proportion and at the right time can save your life, make you wealthy and protect your relationships.”
Source: Quantraz
“Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits that category.”
“Fear of the sun will eventually make you sick.”
“Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.”
“Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.”
“Fear of the unknown is really the same fear of dark rooms we had as children; a place we fill with the products of our imaginations.”
“Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.”
“Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.”
“Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.”
Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition
“Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.”
“Fear of vikings build castles.”
“Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.”
“Fear of women love more than hate the man.”
“Fear one thing in all that is…
Fear the Djinn.”
“Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.”
“Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.”
“Fear only has as much power as we give it space.”
“FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE”
“Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.”
“Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.”
“Fear or anxiety is a normal part of living. It’s the body’s way of telling us something isn’t right. It keeps us from harm’s way and prepares us to act quickly in the face of danger.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“Fear or happiness... Parenting or impulse... Primitive stupidity or vain self-destruction...”
Source: Flaws of Oblivion
“Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Fear overrides all rational thinking”
“Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.”
“Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.”
Source: Wit, Wisdom, Eloquence, and Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, Truthful Sayings and Full Reports of the Great Speeches of this Celebrated Man, Together with the Funeral Oration at His Brother's Grave
“Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.”
“Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.”
“Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.”
“Fear poisons reality.”
“Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.”
“Fear, poverty, alcoholism, loneliness are terminal illnesses. Emergencies, in fact.”
Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.”
“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”
Source: Name of the Rose
“Fear protects us, but courage protects something bigger than us. It may be a family, a society, or even the world.”
Source: The Artist
“Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.”
“Fear—real, honest-to-God debilitating fear—is an affliction.”
Source: Street Angel
“Fear really makes people do things they probably normally woudn't do.”
“Fear regulates. Appetite impels.”
“Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.”
“Fear resisted is fear amplified, fear embraced is fear relieved.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Fear resisted is fear amplified,
Fear embraced is fear relieved.
Most fears are rooted in imagination,
Observe yourself and all is revealed.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission