Fear Quotes
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.Lloyd Douglas
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.Niccolo Machiavelli
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.Marianne Williamson
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.Cyril Connolly
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
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
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
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.Joseph Conrad
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
There is only one universal passion fear.George Bernard Shaw
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.Epictetus
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Let them hate so long as they fear.Lucius Accius
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.Anthony Robbins
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Do what you fear and fear disappears.David Schwartz
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.Saul David Alinsky
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
Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - Folded fear.Thomas Jefferson
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
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
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
To him who is in fear everything rustles.Sophocles, Acrisius
