Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: fear

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.

Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

Action conquers fear.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.