One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear i...
Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I need not teach from a fearful place: I can teach fro...
Your fears are the ones that constantly pull you down, that stop you from achieving what you would have achieved a long time back. The only difference between a successful person and a failure is – fear. Fear of not ‘trying’ something new, or f...
George: Let's leave the Jews out of this just for a moment. Let's think of another minority. One that... One that can go unnoticed if it needs to. There are all sorts of minorities, blondes for example... Or people with freckles. But a minority is on...
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for ...
Fear and restlessness kill more than do illnesses.
Fear an ignorant man more than a lion.
Our fears always outnumber our dangers.
If you are wearing shoes, you don't fear the thorns.
Fear and love never eat from the same plate.
The judge's son goes into the courtroom without fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!-Incomparably the bravest of all the cr...
But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
I have the fear of people knowing what I am fearful of.
Don't fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you - rjs
It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
