Fear Quotes

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
Niccolo machiavelli, the prince - to be feared is much safer then to be loved....
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William Gladstone
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cyrus corteise - not many can admit their fears, but those who can...
Titus livius - we fear things in proportion to our ignorance of...
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
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".
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
Robert Mallet
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
Fridjof Nansen
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurbe
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffe
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet
I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley Wellington
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.
Salvador Dali
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
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
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
Harry Homes
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
Henry van Dyke
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
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman