Famous Quotes

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."

Miguel de Cervantes on Fear

More quotes about Fear

• "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

  John F. Kennedy on Fear

• "Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."

  Audrey Hepburn on Fear

• "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

  Thomas Paine on Fear

• "We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

  Jim Morrison on Fear

• "What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Fear

More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

• "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."

• "Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

• "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

• "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this."

• "He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all."