Quotes by Fear A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. Georges Clemenceau fearinspirationallife To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid. Georges Bataille eyefearpeople There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. George R. R. Martin what-mattersfearfather History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana fearlyingpeople There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. George S. Patton couragefeartime If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. George S. Patton intelligentfearwar I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? George S. Patton militaryfearmotivational Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. Geraldine Brooks imaginationfearmen We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all. Gerald Jampolsky onenessfearpast Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. George S. Patton essencefearmen Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't. Gertrude B. Elion womenfearmotivational The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. George MacDonald herofearmen Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. George Orwell fearrunninganimal Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you. Gianfranco Zola donefearfood We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. George Orwell strugglefearclass It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. George Eliot acceptanceselffear Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. Gertrude Stein scaryfearinspiring The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people. Gilbert Highet fearbelievethinking It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Gillian Anderson fearmeanmoving Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life. Gina Barreca fearhomereality«4041424344454647484950»
