Fear Quotes
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.Unknown
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.Chinese Prove
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.Robert Jones Burdette
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.Jean de La Fontaine
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.Harper Lee
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
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.Hasidic Saying
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.Zora Neale Hurston
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
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
Never take counsel of your fears.General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.Amelia Earhart
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.Assyrian Prove
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.Chinese Prove
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
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
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.Bertrand Russell
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.Hugh Prathe
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
