Fear Quotes
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.Samual Rutherford
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Newman
Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.Blaise Pascal
To him who is in fear everything rustles.Sophocles, Acrisius
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.Salvador Dali
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.Virgil, Aeneid
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.J. K. Rowling
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.Pope John Paul II
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.Marquis de Vauvenargues
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
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
To own is to fear.Danish prove
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.William Shakespeare
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
Fear is a great motivator.Art Bell
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.Anthony Robbins
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.Lucan
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
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
