“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
Fear is universal, but what you do with it is personal. These quotes explore the anatomy of being afraid — from stage fright to existential dread — and the surprising number of good things that sit on the other side of doing something scary.
“The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.”
“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
“I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.”
“There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'”
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.”
“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”
“But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.”
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”
“For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.”
“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”
“Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.”
“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.”
“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
“Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.”
“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”