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All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
George S. Patton1885–1945War As I Knew It
- War & Peace
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton1885–1945
- Courage
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Raven (1844), Stanza 5.In context
In this unnerved⁠—in this pitiable condition⁠—I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, Fear.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context
You are afraid of life, Little Man, deadly afraid. You will murder it in the belief of doing it for the sake of “socialism,” or “the state,” or “national honor,” or “the glory of God.”
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Listen, Little Man! (1948)
An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!
James Whitcomb Riley1849–1916Little Orphant Annie (1885)In context
- Children
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself⁠—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919An Autobiography (1913)
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)
- Anger
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1950).
- Wisdom
Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Marriage and Morals (1929)
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays (1950)
No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Dreams and Facts (1919)
In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 107
- Anti-Religion