Fear Quotes

Eric hoffe - we have perhaps a natural fear of ends. we would...
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld
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
Oliver wendell holmes jr. - we are all tattooed in our cradles with the...
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
Hugh Prathe
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
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
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
James russell lowell - they are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen...
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Publilius Syrus
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Anthony Robbins
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
Marie Curie
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
Chinese Prove
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that 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
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. McIntyre
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Lucius Accius
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
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 timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
Edgar Albert Guest
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost