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“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali
“Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Steve Jobs
“Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
Steve Jobs
“...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.”
Martin Luther King
“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
Isaac Asimov
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
Mark Twain
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain
“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.”
Lao Tzu
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”
Robert Burns
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Bruce Lee
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”
Paulo Coelho
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela
“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”
Chet Atkins
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
Jane Austen
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
Confucius
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
Confucius
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
Thomas Jefferson
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
Thomas Jefferson
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
Andre Gide
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”
Amelia Earhart
