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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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.
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.
I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl
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.
Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.