Learn Through Quotations

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

“Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.”

“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”

“Don't fear change - embrace it.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

“The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.”

“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ”

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

“The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.”

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.”

“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”