Fear Quotes

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

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

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

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

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

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

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

La Rochefoucauld

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop

What a fearful object a long - Neglected duty gets to be.

Chauncey Wright

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

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, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

He who fears something gives it power over him.

Moorish Prove

Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.

Swedish Prove

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

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

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

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Elwood Bly

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth