Fear Quotes

Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - And what do you get? The sum of their fears.
Winston Churchill
William cowpe - he has no hope who never had a fear....
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
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
H. l. mencken - puritanism the haunting fear that someone,...
John c. dvorak - in all large corporations, there is a pervasive...
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward Weeks
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Jerry Gillies
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
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".
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
Persian Prove
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Richard Baxte
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
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
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
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
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
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long
It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.
Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter Medawa
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
Miles Davis
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Kelle
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