Quotes about Fear
I do not mind Bedouins,—I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades.
— Mark Twain
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
— Mark Twain
Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?
— Mark Twain
Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word. I touched off one of my electric connections, and all that murky world of people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare! It was immense—that effect! Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons. The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.
— Mark Twain
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fear and apathy which had for so long cast a shadow on the life of the Negro community were gradually fading before a new spirit of courage and self respect. ... The longings and aspirations of nearly 50,000 people, tired people who had come to see that it is ultimately more honorable to walk the streets in dignity than to ride the buses in humilation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.
— Arthur Conan Doyle