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“Fear exists to glorify courage. A timid man exists to glorify a courageous man. There will be no value for goodness if badness does not exist. One side of a thing cannot have significance without the existence of the other side. Hence everything in this world has two sides. Dvandvas exist to keep up the flow of the world.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is illusory; it cannot live. Courage is eternal, it will not die. Perils, calamities, dangers are the certain lot of every man who is a denizen of this world. Therefore, O Man! Fortify your mind with courage and patience. Fortitude, courage, presence of mind will sustain you through all dangers.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Practice the virtue during the day. Feel that you actually possess courage to an enormous degree. Manifest it in your daily life. In some weeks or months fear will be replaced by courage. Repeat the formula “Om courage” mentally, daily several times.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!”
Hjalmar Schacht (1877–1970) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn (27 January 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
“But Brandoch Daha said lightly, "Fear not, my Lord Gro, we'll reject no honest redes of so wise a counsellor as thou. But," and here was a light in the eye of him made Gro startle, "did any man with serious intent dare bid me do a dastard deed, he should have my sword through the dearest part of's body.”
Eric Rücker Eddison (1882–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands”
Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What's left of me is just for you to see in your heart Even though we may be far apart Never fear if I should disappear You will see there are still stars that shine after me”
Ysabella Brave (born 1979) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Moon was Red (an original Ysabella Brave!)" (16 June 2008)
“....but I use the word (devotion) in a greater latitude so as to comprehend under it faith, hope, love, fear, trust, humility, submission, honour , reverence, adoration, thanksgiving in a word all that duty which we owe to God.”
John Norris (1657–1711) said by 1711 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) first seen 1763 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Author (1763), line 233
Also quoted by: Charles Churchill
“Why should we fear? and what? The laws? They all are arm'd in Virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always Virtue's friend.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I drew my hands over her belly and legs, felt my own desire, searched foolishly for my passion, strained for it while she waited, rolled and tore my hair and begged for it, but there was none, there was none at all, only the retreat to Hackmuth's letter and thoughts that remained to be written, but no lust, only fear of her, and shame and humiliation.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It crept upon me--the restlessness, the loneliness. What was the matter...Then it came to me like crashing and thunder, like death and destruction. I got up from the counter and walked away in fear, walking fast down the boardwalk, passing people who seemed strange and ghostly: the world seemed a myth, a transparent plane, and all things upon it were here for only a little while...”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't fear death. But I don't like being dangled out there like a piece of meat on a fishing rod to it either. If I'm going to die, take me out now. Don't let me suffer. That's not exactly the way I wanted to go. I don't want to be in limbo, I don't want to know that I might die. The mights don't work with me. I'm too literal.”
Anastacia (born 1968) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I don't fear death", The Guardian.com, March 15, 2004.
“I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I’ve written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death — the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson", in Filmfax magazine (2004). Online at MYSTERY*FILE: The Crime Fiction Research Journal (2006)
“I hope, I fear, resolved, and yet I doubt, I'm cold as ice, and yet I burn as fire; I wot not what, and yet I much desire, And trembling too, am desperately stout.”
William Alexander (1567–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despair and confidence both banish fear.”
William Alexander (1567–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Starting from 1993 in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and now running unchecked throughout Japan, signs saying 'Japanese Only' have gone up, making an unspoken undercurrent of fear of the outsider into clear, present, and brazen exclusionism — following the best traditions of segregation and apartheid.”
Debito Arudou (born 1965) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rogues' Gallery: Photos of Places in Japan which Exclude or Restrict non-Japanese Customers," Debito.Org (last revised November 2007)
“Those who fear men love the laws.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. E. Lee (1903) p. 176
“Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. E. Lee (1903) p. 184
“When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. E. Lee (1903) p. 187
“If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. E. Lee (1903) p. 188
“How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. (Ch 8)”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" (1960) by the United States Congress, p. 157
“'Faith' is merely fear dressed up as virtue.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Your faith is a joke" (16 December 2010)
“The result of this is fear. And man gasps for safety and morality.”
Sukarno (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Run from the Furies, and they find you, as if fear were a homing device, as if literature itself, on contemplating the abyss, were an invitation to jump into it, while Wagner whistles.”
John Leonard (critic) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meeting at Winkel", The New York Times (6 September 1982)
“My sword is Strength, my spear is Song; With these upon a stubborn field I challenge Falsehood, Fear and Wrong; But Laughter is my shield.”
Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He did not even try, for fear of succeeding. What could he say? “Disarm. Seek peace. Hammer your swords into ploughshares.” And suppose they did? The enemy would strike again—and succeed, against an unprepared nation.”
Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Du Bartas
“Fear God, and take your own part.”
George Borrow (1803–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.”
William Cobbett (1763–1835) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Parson Malthus,” Political Register (8 May 1819)
“What outcries pluck me from my naked bed And chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear.”
Thomas Kyd (1558–1594) said by 1594 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since what unnumbered year Hast thou kept watch and ward And o’er the buried Land of Fear So grimly held thy guard?”
Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sphynx (published 1864).
“I’ve always maintained that it’s easy to make a film on Adolf Hitler. What is difficult is to find out why he struck a chord with the German people; what is the nature of fear, aspiration and identity that he evoked in them that it became Hitler’s Germany.”
Saeed Akhtar Mirza (born 1943) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Once again, I feel I have something to say’ Interview, Page 2 Indian Express, Jun 07, 2009.
“Emotions that make us human will never be duplicated by a machine. These include compassion, love, empathy, elation, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, pleasure, pride, excitement, embarrassment, regret, jealousy, grief, hope, and faith. Properly defined, creativity, sentience, and understanding are also on the list. These and other non-algorithmic traits are evidence of non-computable you.”
Robert J. Marks II (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear — think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change — transform — this country in a fundamental way. This chance won’t come around again.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s not about being fearless. It’s about learning how to move through fear.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes the best way to deal with fear is to just start moving.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Connection is the antidote to fear.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown!”
Thomas Dunn English (1819–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ben Bolt, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Defenders of Western civilization should not sugarcoat Islam or downplay its violent tendencies out of a misguided fear of offending its adherents.”
Geert Wilders (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sir, you must be all caution and no fear, and you'll find true what our old friend Archimedes said some while ago.”
John Byrom (1692–1763) said by 1763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wonderful baby, nothin' to fear. Love whom you will, but doubt what you hear. They'll whisper sweet things to make untrue. So be good to yourself, that's all you can do.You're a wonderful baby livin' on love The sandman says maybe he'll take you above, Up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, Where babies float by, just counting their toes.”
Don McLean (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We wait -- it seems for minutes -- looking at the night sky. Then, suddenly breaking the silence and making us start with alarm and fear... there is a savage, heart-rending, gurgling scream.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear, selfishness, greed and a human weakness for seeking the "easy way" have led us to the abyss.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No name will provoke so many attacks as that of Maitreya, for it is bound up with the future. Nothing provokes so much fear and irritation in people as thinking about the future.”
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never fear, true hearts! A people which has shown the quality of its genius as this nation has in the last four years will finish its work. It will go forward and not backward. For our America shall be the Sinai of the nations, and from the terrible thunders and lightnings of its great struggle shall proceed the divine law of liberty that shall subdue and harmonize the world.”
George William Curtis (1824–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has thine own dear playful look— Thy smile! thy sun-bright hair! Thy brow—so like a holy book With sweet thoughts written there! The full, soft lids, half-raised above Those blue and dreamy eyes, Within whose gaze of trusting love No fear—no falsehood lies! Like lonely lakes of Heaven's pure rain Reflecting only Heaven again.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That thing doesn’t care about you. It won’t reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That’s the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn’t care. Remember.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source