Fear Quotes

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Anthony Robbins

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?

Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Doug Larson

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

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

Henry van Dyke

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

John Donne

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Virgil

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Harry Homes

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

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Abraham Maslow

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Lori Hard

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

H. L. Mencken

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.

Chinese Prove

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Kahlil Gibran

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Madame de Sevigne

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Robert Mallet

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare