959 private quotes tagged fear

“Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”— Arthur Koestler

“Let them hate so long as they fear.”— Lucius Accius

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”— James Thurber

“Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.”— Cyril Connolly

“We fear the thing we want the most.”— Robert Anthony

“Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.”— Kenny Rogers

“You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.”— Sharon Stone

“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”— Horace Mann

“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.”— Fernando Flores

“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”— A. N. Wilson

“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”— Brendan Francis

“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”— Luc de Clapiers

“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.”— Aulus Persius Flaccus

“The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.”— Eric Hoffer

“We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.”— Eric Hoffer

“It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.”— Georges Bernanos

“Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.”— Fred Allen

“Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.”— A. N. Wilson

“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.”— Pierre Beaumarchais

“One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.”— Dustin Hoffman

“And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.”— Ian Rush

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”— Umberto Eco

“I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.”— Etty Hillesum

“Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.”— John Cheever

“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”— Chanakya