Fear Quotes

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace, Odes
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.
Swedish Prove
Sophocles - who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them;...
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle, unknown
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison
Unknown - what man does not understand, he fears; and what...
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Edward weeks - to live with fear and not be afraid is the final...
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Marilyn C. Barrick
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
Robert Mallet
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Ernst Steinbeck
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Jewish Prove
Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - Folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Hadewijch of Antwerp
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
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
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Cyril Connolly
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Ernest Thompson Seton
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Kelle
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying.
Jalal ud - Din Rumi
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
Thomas Fulle
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Richard Baxte
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
William Lyon Phelps
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson