Fear Quotes
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Better hazard once than always be in fear.Thomas Fulle
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
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
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.Edgar Watson Howe
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.Dr. Robert Schulle
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Helen Kelle
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.James Baldwin
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.Haniel Long
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.James Stephens
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
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
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.Oswald Chambers
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.Robert Oppenheime
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.J. K. Rowling
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Robert Elwood Bly
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.Leon Blum
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.Persian Prove
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.Paul Sweeney
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.Joan Rivers
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
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
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.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
