Quotes by American Authors - Page 117

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.
Jeraldine Saunders
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H.L. Mencken
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.
Dr. Robert Jarvik
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
John Mellencamp
Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.
Joshua L. Liebman
Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.
J. Ruth Gendler
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
Sandy Koufax
Fear nothing for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons all sins into experience.
Katherine Tingley
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde
There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
General George S. Patton
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
Fear is sand in the machinery of life.
E. Stanley Jones
Fear is uncertainty.
Eric Hoffer
Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold Glasow
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
Henry Link
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
Henry H. Tweedy
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
O. J. Simpson
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
Louis L'Amour
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
John Witherspoon
Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.
Richard Halverson
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness because illness contains information our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt
Fear drives you and makes you better.
Donna E. Shalala
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
Humor acts to relieve fear.
Dr. William F. Fry
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
Allen Klein
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
George Matthew Adams
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
James F. Bell
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Edward R. Murrow
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
Jean Craighead George
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.
Bonaro Overstreet
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
Roseanne Barr
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.
Alice Duer Miller
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.
Marcelene Cox
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck
You can't be envious and happy at the same time.
Frank Tyger
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
Margaret Mead
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.
Joan Didion
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.
Irving Thalberg
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
Thornton Wilder
If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Max Ehrmann