Fear Quotes - page 82

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. (Robert F. Kennedy)
When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve. View quote
Kobe Bryant
You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say. View quote
Kobe Bryant
When I remember those difficult days, I remember the fear, I remember the strength, I remember that hand of that fellow American soldier, reassuring me that I was going to be okay. View quote
Jessica Lynch
Anyone who bar-codes their employees isn't likely to be the forgiving type, and the reflex of long-held obedience through hierarchy is usually enough to overcome fear of a combat death. That's how you fight wars, after all-with soldiers who are more afraid of stepping out of line than they are of dying on the battlefield. View quote
Richard Morgan
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. View quote
Camille Paglia
If you've had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit. View quote
Carly Fiorina
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, it results in confusion, fear, and retreat. [...] The third rule is: Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat. View quote
Saul Alinsky
Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. View quote
Saul Alinsky
Having to remind others of your American status, fear of being connected to the enemy because of ancestral ties, the threat so prevalent that it makes you put not one but two giant flags outside is not right. View quote
Margaret Cho
Men afraid may see demons in the familiar, and direct their fear of the insensible to a fear of the sensible.” "Thought-lacking!” "So it is; but it is what folk do. (Michael Flynn)
As often happens, fear showed itself in hostility. View quote
Michael Flynn
All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
The public takes care of their fear by thinking only crazies and stupid people wind up in cults. I've interviewed over 4000 ex-cult members. There's no one type of person who is vulnerable. View quote
Margaret Singer
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. View quote
Robert Burton
Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness. View quote
Robert Burton
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. View quote
Eudora Welty
A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong. View quote
Bell hooks
The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression. View quote
Bell hooks
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. View quote
Bell hooks
Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames. (Kage Baker)
When you laugh at something, you don't fear it anymore. View quote
Kage Baker
Sex,” Kiu said thoughtfully. "And Fear. Get that big old devil behind them with a stick, and my radiant beauty in front of them, and they'll run right off a cliff, if I ask.” "I'm a firm believer in Guilt, personally,” said Labienus. "Works well on individuals,” Kiu conceded. "Nothing like it for subtle motivation. Plant it deeply enough into a mortal's psyche and it twists them endlessly.” Labienus sighed. "Get it in there young enough and it'll do all your work for you. You'll have only to prod the mortal along with a suggestion now and then. View quote
Kage Baker
The major weapon now being used by the combined Forces of Evil is chaos, disruption, lack of established security, and consequent fear... The entire rhythm of international thinking has to be altered, and that constitutes a slow and arduous task; the evil personalities which, in every country, are responsible for the chaos and uncertainty, have eventually to be replaced by those who can work in co-operation with the rhythm of the seventh Ray, and thus produce ordered beauty. p. 668. View quote
Alice Bailey
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men. View quote
William Allingham