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Fear Quotes by William James
- Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing…
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
- Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we…
- I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.
- The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
- What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is…
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
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