Fear Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Robyn Davidson
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
William shakespeare - in time we hate that which we often fear....
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
Cyrus Corteise
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
Sophocles - who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them;...
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
Author unknown - when you can think of yesterday without regret...
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
"Swedish Proverb".
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
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
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd Douglas
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beeche
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
Unknown
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Prove
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
Chinese Prove
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
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Kahlil Gibran
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.
Caligula (Gaius Caesar)
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Cyril Connolly
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
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.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson, 1801
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt