Fear Quotes

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Marilyn C. Barrick

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

G. Macdonald

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

Marie Curie

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Doug Larson

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao - Tzu

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

William Arthur Ward

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato, The Republic

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Ernst Steinbeck