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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
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To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
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Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
William Ralph Inge
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucious
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
Ambrose Bierce
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Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Unknown
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No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
C. S. Lewis
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Unknown
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Unknown
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
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Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Quentin Tarantino
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In true faith there exists no hope, and no fear.
Rev J Derrick Unger III
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Joseph Stalin
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Don't worry about a thing,
Bob Marley
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Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear.
Garth Brooks
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
Thomas Jefferson
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
C. S. Lewis
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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
Northern Exposure
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
Milan Kundera
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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.
Tori Amos
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
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For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Marilyn C. Barrick
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Fear less, hope more;
Swedish Proverb
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Rudyard Kipling
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Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Cicero
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A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington
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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine Patterson
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Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer
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