F Quotes
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“Fear,
the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of
acts of courage”
Source: The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity
“Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down.”
“Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.”
“Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.”
Source: The Courage To Be
“Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.”
Source: Harbours of Memory
“Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.”
Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.”
“Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.”
“Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.”
“Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.”
“Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.”
Source: The fear of God
“Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.”
“Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable”
Source: The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)
“Fear, physical pain, and death are just part of the price Americans pay for the easy access of handguns. It is estimated that the total costs to Americans of gun violence (the vast majority of which involves handguns) is measured in tens of billions of dollars.3 In comparison, the wholesale value of the 1.3 million handguns manufactured in America in 1998 totaled only $370 million.”
“Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average”
“Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.”
“Fear, she's the mother of violence.”
“Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.”
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.”
“Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.”
“Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.”
“Fear," the doctor said, "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-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.”
Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
“Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.”
“Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!”
“Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.”
“Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium”
“Fear. People are afraid of talking about their fears and insecurities. They're afraid of expressing emotion beyond anger, dominance, or power, and they're afraid of getting in touch with their feminine side.”
“Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release”
“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
“Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“Feare nothing but sinne.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Feare, the Bedle of the Law.”
“Feares are divided in the midst.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.”
“Fearful investors sell their stocks the moment prices drop while confident ones see those drops as opportunities to own better businesses at cheaper rates.”
Source: Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits
“Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.”
Source: the caucasian chalk circle
“Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis-whatever it is-will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.”
“Fearful of competition, of demanding stockholders, and of public and private entities seeking greater cuts of their profits, sportsbooks allow people on their platforms to develop gambling problems. Then they let them keep betting until the money runs out.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.”
“Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.”
“Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.”
Source: Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography
“Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, "May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides in deep waters.”
Source: Novel Hearts