Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Barbara Deming

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

Berthold Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Benjamin Graham

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Brian Tracy

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Brian Herbert

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

Brad Garrett

Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

Brad Meltzer

When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.

Brad Meltzer

And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

Jane Hirshfield

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Juvenal

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

Juvenal

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Krysten Ritter

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Charles Bukowski

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

There is a lot of fear when an acquisition takes place. Most people are fiddling around with their resumes on their computers.

Vince Carter

When it was all about V.C. the Raptors played with fear, and that's not how you win games.

We used to joke about Jerry Bailey's rail pass. He was an inside rider. That's where the fearless riders go. It's the shortest way around the race track - and the most dangerous.

Benjamin Franklin

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

Barbra Streisand

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Arthur Golden

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Arthur C. Clarke

'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

Arthur C. Clarke

Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Arundhati Roy

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Anthony Trollope

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Derrick Bell

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Demian Bichir

I'm an actor who's accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

Demi Lovato

I want to be fearless.

Demi Lovato

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.