Quotes by Authors - Page 213

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
Erica Jong
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
Anonymous
Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
Norman Cousins
A good life fears not life nor death.
Thomas Fuller
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. ... When we give ourselves permission to fail we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.
Eloise Ristad
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.
Mark N. Cohen
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.
Nancy Kerrigan
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Katherine Anne Porter
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner
Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.
Ronald Rood
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
Marianne Williamson
Fears are educated into us and can if we wish be educated out.
Dr. Karl Menninger
That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.
Etty Hillesum
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
Margaret Atwood
Fear breeds fear.
Byron Janis
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?
Elizabeth Bowen
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.
Dr. Frank Crane
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright caring and anxiety.
Helen Gurley Brown
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
Mary Bokin Chesnut
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.
Dana Burnet
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
T.S Eliot
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper or his keeper's brother.
Evan Esar
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
Dogs come when they are called cats take a message and get back to you.
Mary Bly
When angry count four when very angry swear.
Samuel L. Clemens
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
Anonymous
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
W. R. Alger
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
Anonymous
Don't get mad get even.
Robert F. Kennedy
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
Michel de Montaigne
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
Thomas Fuller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.
Alexander Dumas
America is God's crucible the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The Real American has not yet arived. He is only in the crucible Itell you - he will be the fusion of all races the common superman.
Israel Zangwill
Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
E.M. Forster
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization the first permanent civilization in America.
Bernard de Voto
A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
Christopher Morley