Fear Quotes
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.Alanis Morissette
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.Buddha
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
I have built my organization upon fear.Al Capone
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.William Lyon Phelps
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.Don DeLillo, White Noise
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."Swedish Proverb".
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
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".
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.Benjamin Franklin
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.Publilius Syrus
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Newman
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
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
Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.Blaise Pascal
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.Unknown
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.Madame de Sevigne
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril Connolly
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
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In time we hate that which we often fear.William Shakespeare
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Alexander Pope, (1712)
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
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.Virgil
