Quotes
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. ~Kurt Vonnegut
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? ~John Godfrey Saxe
But sound aloud the praises, and give the victor-crown
To our noble-hearted Firemen, who fear not danger's frown.
~Frederic G.W. Fenn, "Ode to our Firemen," 1878
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~Bible, John 15:13
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over. ~Author Unknown
When fire is cried and danger is neigh,
"God and the firemen" is the people's cry;
But when 'tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.
~Author unknown, from The Fireman's Journal, 18 Oct 1879
All men are created equal, then a few become firemen. ~Author Unknown
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning
Firefighters save hearts and homes. ~Author Unknown
Firefighters are hot stuff! ~Author Unknown
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls. ~Author Unknown
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer
You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you. ~Author Unknown
You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight. ~Author Unknown
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ~Larry Brown
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick
Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850
The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. ~Seth Parker
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare
When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. ~Edward F. Croker
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. ~Author Unknown
Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office. ~Author Unknown
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ~James Allen
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather
The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers. ~Everett Mámor
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. ~Seth Parker
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. ~Sherry Anderson (Thanks, Kathy)
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. ~Elizabeth Andrew
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. ~Author Unknown
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ~James Allen
God and angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers. ~Cherishe Archer
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather
Volunteers are love in motion! ~Author Unknown
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ~Author Unknown
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton
How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ~William James
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ~Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank
The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author Unknown
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras (Thanks, Jim)
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike (Thanks, Carl)
God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through. ~Author Unknown
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have. ~Christopher Morley
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou
Volunteers do it for free. ~Author Unknown
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~James Russell Lowell
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~Confucius
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia
Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.
~Henry Burton, Pass It On
Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie
Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. ~Leigh Hunt
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. ~Henry David Thoreau
Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out. ~Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum
Fire is the most tolerable third party. ~Henry David Thoreau
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
Don't let your dreams go up in smoke - practice fire safety. ~Author Unknown
He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. ~W.J. Cameron
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~Robert Herrick
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic. ~Jack Handey
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. ~Horace
Fires all go out eventually. ~Author Unknown
Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Author Unknown
If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned. ~Saying
Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. ~Author Unknown
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower? ~Warren Hutcherson
Practice fire safety - watch what you heat. ~Author Unknown
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ~Otto Weininger
Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail. ~Author Unknown
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? ~Author Unknown
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee
Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thank you, George.)
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. ~George Bernard Shaw
When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark." ~Steven Moffat, Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ~Vincent van Gogh
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~Marvin Kitman
Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? ~Marvin Kitman
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~Thomas Fuller
Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Irisa Hail
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~Alfred North Whitehead
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks
A man of courage never wants weapons. ~Author Unknown
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop
A brave arm makes a short sword long. ~Author Unknown
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion
Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato
Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne
Necessity does the work of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
Inside courage laughs fear. ~Jareb Teague
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~Joseph Epstein
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. ~Irisa Hail
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler
Courage is a kind of salvation. ~Plato
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg
Our thought cures courage. ~Jareb Teague
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. ~H.G. Bohn
You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ~William Shakespeare
For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind. ~Eleanor Everet
Safety doesn't happen by accident. ~Author Unknown
"Safety First" is "Safety Always." ~Charles M. Hayes
Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
Precaution is better than cure. ~Edward Coke
Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. ~Author Unknown
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. ~Horace
Safety means first aid to the uninjured. ~Author Unknown
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused. ~Ernest Greenwood
Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent. ~Author Unknown
Chance takers are accident makers. ~Author Unknown
Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car. ~Author Unknown
It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash. ~Author Unknown
Luck runs out but safety is good for life. ~Author Unknown
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ~James Thurber
Accidents hurt - safety doesn't. ~Author Unknown
Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it. ~Author Unknown
The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense. ~Author Unknown
Working without safety is a dead-end job. ~Author Unknown
Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury. ~Author Unknown
We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a manmade problem can be solved by men and women. ~W.H. Cameron
Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters. ~Hartman Jule
Safety never takes a holiday. ~Author Unknown
When you gamble with safety, you bet your life. ~Author Unknown
While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work. ~Author Unknown
Hearing protection is a sound investment. ~Author Unknown
To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one. ~Author Unknown
Your safety gears are between your ears. ~Author Unknown
Personal protective equipment is self-defense. ~Author Unknown
Tomorrow - your reward for working safely today. ~Author Unknown
Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches. ~Author Unknown
Don't learn safety by accident. ~Author Unknown
Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938
Safety is as simple as ABC - Always Be Careful. ~Author Unknown
Safety isn't expensive, its priceless. ~Author Unknown
Be alert! Accidents hurt. ~Author Unknown
Better dead sure than sure dead. ~Author Unknown
When safety is a factor, call in a contractor. ~Author Unknown
Wishing won't keep you safe - safety will. ~Author Unknown
Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die. ~Author Unknown
The safest risk is the one you didn't take. ~Author Unknown
Safety isn't just a slogan, it's a way of life. ~Author Unknown
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~Henry Louis Mencken
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. ~George S. Patton
Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ~Andre Gide
There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp
Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy
Fear is the highest fence. ~Dudley Nichols
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ~Orison Swett Marden
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ~James Hastings
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. ~Ruth Gendler
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~Bertrand Russell
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~Brendan Francis
Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~Bertrand Russell
Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~Benjamin Disraeli
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. ~George Matthew Adams
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. ~Aeschylus
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~Samuel Butler
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas
A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
Fear prejudices courage. ~Abigail Charleson
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill
Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. ~Katharine Butler Hathaway
He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~Donald Dowes
Fear dances with courage. ~Ever Garrison
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender
To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear. ~T.A. Sachs
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson
