Fear Quotes

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

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

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

James A. LaFond - Lewis

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.

Swedish Prove

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleano

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Unknown

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Lucan

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

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Author Unknown

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

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

H. L. Mencken

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

Thomas Fulle

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Diogenes Laertius, Zeno

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

Stendhal

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou