F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.”
“Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.”
Source: Escaping the Giant Wave
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that could mean we'd end up alone and uncared for); fear of being dependent (that could mean we'd be swallowed by some dominating "other"); fear of being competent and good at what we do (that could mean we'd have to keep on being good at what we do); fear of being incompetent (that could mean we'd have to keep on feeling shlumpy, depressed, and second class).
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Phobia has so thoroughly infiltrated the feminine experience it is like a secret plague. It has been built up over long years by social conditioning and is all the more insidious for being so thoroughly acculturated we do not even recognize what has happened to us.
Women will not become free until they stop being afraid. We will not begin to experience real change in our lives, real emancipation, until we begin the process - almost a de-brainwashing - of working through the anxieties that prevent us from feeling competent and whole.”
Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
“Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.”
Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“Fear that makes faith may break faith.”
Source: Bothwell: A Tragedy
“Fear that man who fears not God.”
“Fear—that was what they wanted, so she gave them the opposite.
Instead of frightened servants and panicked stable boys—they found themselves facing her. Here was a woman at ease as if their spears, shields, and glares didn’t exist.
When people didn’t see what they expected to see, it made them question things. If she wasn’t afraid, perhaps it was because she had no reason to be afraid.”
Source: Tears of the Wolf
“Fear, that which kills dreams. Fear, that which destroys ambitions. O’ Fear, that which kills initiatives. You hold your captives within their comfort zones, never allowing them to stretch beyond its wall to go fulfill their potentials. Fear, the reason people wish and never act, the reason they dream and never take a step to achieve their dreams.”
“Fear the enemy who strikes you, but dread the friend who finds a rhythm in your screams.”
Source: Stories Of Jivavarta
“Fear, the greatest of which, builds with anticipation and plunders the rational mind of all reason, swallows all common sense.”
Source: The Keepers
“Fear: the overrated security guard of life, always shouting 'danger!' but conveniently absent when you actually need it to pay the bills.”
“Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.”
“Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!”
“Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.”
“Fear the sword of sin, it leads to death of the soul.”
“Fear the unjust when you will reveal the truth
because its bite more dangerous than a poisonous snake.”
“Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.”
“Fear those who seek your company for their own vanity. As soon as you eclipse them in the mirror, it won't be the mirror they break.”
Source: Dark Age
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy...! I will strengthen thee; yea; I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness; Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be confounded; they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish...”
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'”
Source: Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus
“Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.”
“Fear too often spells failure.”
Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“Fear traps you inside your own body, holding you prisoner, convincing you of lies that sound like the truth.”
Source: Fighting the Odds
“Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.”
“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”
“Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.”
Source: The First Confessor
“Fear trumps empathy.”
“Fear tugs at me and I'm falling.
I grab at the mattress, dig in with my fingers, flop onto my stomach, hold tight. Press my face into the pillow so hard it hurts. The quilt twists like it wants to smother me.
I can't scream out loud, but there has to be some release. I kick my feet against the mattress in a muffled frenzy, legs flying fast and hard enough to carry me miles away. And when it's done, nothing's changed. I'm still stuck right here.”
“Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
“Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.”
Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)
“Fear usually benefits the feared; seldom the fearful.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“Fear usually looks like anger.”
“Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.”
“Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.”
“Fear was a man running from his shadow. It was a woman wearing headphones and the only sound she could hear in them was her own terror. Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself. Fear was stronger than ethics, stronger than judgment, stronger than responsibility, stronger than civilization. Fear was a bolting animal trampling children underfoot as it fled from itself. Fear was a bigot, a tyrant, a coward, a red mist, a whore. Fear was a bullet pointed at his heart.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.”
“Fear was a weapon the powerful wielded time and time again with excellent results.”
Source: A Steeping of Blood
“Fear was a wicked monster clinging to every insecurity, whispering the harshest things.
And salvation could also be dirty.”
Source: Dirty Salvation
“Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.”
“Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.”
“Fear was alive, with a heartbeat of its own.”
Source: Watch Wolf
“Fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.”
Source: Artificial Condition
“Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.”
“Fear was inevitable. We all made our choices, and we all suffered our consequences. We all felt fear. The trick was learning to live with that fear, to continue forward in spite of it.”
Source: Gods & Monsters