Fear Quotes

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Harry S Truman

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

Assyrian Prove

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles, Acrisius

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

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

Jim Morrison

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry van Dyke

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore

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

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

That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.

Don DeLillo, White Noise

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Prove

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Baudjuin

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Aristotle

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

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

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

L. Neil Smith