Fear Quotes

Rodney yee - as we look deeply within, we understand our...
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld
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
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Marie curie - nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be...
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral
Fear is a great motivator.
Art Bell
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?
Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.
Franklin P. Jones
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
Unknown
Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.
Lucius Accius, Fragment
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.
Ross Hersey
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil, Aeneid
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Joe Moore
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
La Rochefoucauld
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Prove
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
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
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.
Eleanor Rosevelt
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus