Fear Quotes
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
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
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
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Truth fears no questions.Anonymous
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
I banish fear with two words: you lead.Demetri Kolokotronis
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.Cyril Connolly
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
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
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.Marquis de Vauvenargues
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.Jean de La Fontaine
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.Theodore Roethke
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
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
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Newman
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.Paul Sweeney
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
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.Thomas Jefferson
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.Bertrand Russell
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
He has no hope who never had a fear.William Cowpe
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.Madame de Sevigne
To own is to fear.Danish prove
What a fearful object a long - Neglected duty gets to be.Chauncey Wright
