Fear Quotes

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?

Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.

Assyrian Prove

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

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

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Harry Homes

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

William Shakespeare

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Titus Livius

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.

Franklin P. Jones

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.

Lloyd Douglas

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leon Blum

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley Wellington

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

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

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