Quotes about Fear
No guts, no glory.
- Anonymous
Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.
- Anonymous
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.
- Anonymous
Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."
- Anonymous
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
- Napoleon Hill
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.
- Seneca
I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.
- JM Coetzee
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.
- JM Coetzee