Quotes by American Authors - Page 174

We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.
Leo Buscaglia
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
Frances Newton
There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
Mary Lyon
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.
William McFee
The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.
John Greenleaf Whittier
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.
Brenda Ueland
We fear the thing we want the most.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.
Elizabeth Gawain
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd C. Douglas
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
Norman Mailer
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
James F. Bell
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death death to energy and all growth.
Horace Fletcher
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
Harry A. Overstreet
Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
John F. Milburn
Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
William Faulkner
Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.
John M. Wilson
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Robert Frost
There is no devil but fear.
Elbert Hubbard
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Henry David Thoreau
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
Dorothy Thompson
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
William Wrigley
Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
Florence Earle Coates
Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
Ron Meyer
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
Bill W.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Louis L'Amour
We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.
Lee Trevino
The horse does abominate the camel the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.
Increase Mather
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
General George S. Patton
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
Eric Hoffer
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.
O. J. Simpson
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
Neil Armstrong
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman
The bow is bent the arrow flies The winged shaft of fate.
Ira Aldridge
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Henry Miller
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
Russell Green
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?
Bob Dylan
Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.
Marco Carson
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
Andrew Jackson
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
Igor Stravinsky
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bentley