Fear Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.Jane Austen
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.Haniel Long
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
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.Jean de La Bruyere
Fear is a great motivator.Art Bell
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.Joan Rivers
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.Michael Pritchard
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.Gaius Julius Caesa
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Eleanor Roosevelt
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.Edgar Watson Howe
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
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
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
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.Saul David Alinsky
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.Marie Curie
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.Miguel de Cervantes
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.Latin Prove
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
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.Jewish Prove
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.Peter Medawa
Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.Lucius Accius, Fragment
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.Susan Jeffers
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
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.James Stephens
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
