Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything that's eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Fear is the mind killer

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

The best safety lies in fear.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Stay away from that jazz man, Lisa. Nothing personal, I just fear the unfamiliar.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Love is letting go of fear.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

All is fear in love and war.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Love is full of anxious fears.

Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

Peter When I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful?

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

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.

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.