Quotes by Fear One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. Henry Ford failurefearinspirational Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller inspirationfeargiving What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion. H. L. Mencken issuesreflectionfear To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing. Henry James fearinspirationalart It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Henry Ward Beecher healthfearmen Should poor souls fear a shade or night, Henry Vaughan lightfearnight In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading. Henryk Sienkiewicz window-panesfearpeople In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless. Henryk Sienkiewicz darknessfearrain Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides. Henry Fielding faultsfearjustice In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others. Herbert Newton Casson respectfearmen One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. Friedrich Nietzsche vanityfearaverage Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie. Herbie Hancock fearadventurelying The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. Herbert Simon fearinspiringbeautiful When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau failuremusicfear Ignorance is the parent of fear. Herman Melville ignorancehealingfear The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form. Henry James riskfearwaiting What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. Heraclitus atheismfearteacher There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. Henry Miller matterfearmen In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear. Herta Muller and-lovefearsleep The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad. Herbert Spencer infidelityfear«4647484950515253545556»
