Fear Quotes

Abraham lincoln - it often requires more courage to dare to do...
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
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Prove
Sir francis bacon - he of whom many are afraid ought to fear many....
Niccolo machiavelli - if an injury has to be done to a man it should be...
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
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
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Kahlil Gibran
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
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
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffe
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.
Unknown
Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.
Caspar de Aguila
Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.
Salvador Dali
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
Virgil
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
G. Macdonald
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
Cyrus Corteise
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
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
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
Bertrand Russell
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
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
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.
George Gordon Byron
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
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
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson, 1801
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius