~ Fear Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.

Horace Fletcher

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.

Dorothy Thompson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

George S. Patton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Jim Morrison

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Eric Hoffer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The horse does abominate the camel; the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse; and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.

Increase Mather

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Tacitus

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.

John Lennon

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark; to another of physical pain; to a third of public ridicule; to a fourth of poverty; to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.

Horace Walpole

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

John F. Milburn

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision turn off all your fears and go ahead.

George S. Patton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear it makes you more alert like a deer coming across the lawn.

Mike Tyson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Niccolo Machiavelli