Famous Quotes

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

Dorothy Thompson 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 Dorothy Thompson

• "Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

• "The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."

• "Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

• "Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."

• "Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."