Quotes 401 till 420 of 596.
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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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The fear of some divine and supreme powers, keeps men in obedience.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39 -
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
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The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
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