Fear Quotes
Love is letting go of fear.Gerald Jampolsky
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.Harry S Truman
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
Nothing is to be feared but fear.Francis Bacon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.Horace, Odes
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.Thomas Fulle
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.James Russell Lowell
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.John F. Kennedy
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Steinbeck
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.Eric Hoffe
Do what you fear and fear disappears.David Schwartz
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.Don DeLillo, White Noise
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.Buddha
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
Fear makes us feel our humanity.Benjamin Disraeli
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.Gaius Julius Caesa
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.Latin Prove
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
