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Fear Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts…
- Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the…
- Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
- In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a…
- We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind...…
- It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations…
- If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
- Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
- Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most…
- This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were…
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
- The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him,…
- Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other…
- Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
- We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only…
More Fear Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad