117 quotes found
“If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.”
“I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.”
“How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?”
“The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.”
“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.”
“When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.”
“We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.”
“When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.”
“Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.”
“Fear is met and destroyed with courage.”
“A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.”
“To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!”
“Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.”
“I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears.”
“Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.”
“Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.”
“Humor acts to relieve fear.”
“If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.”
“Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.”
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.”
