Fear Quotes

Marilyn ferguson - ultimately we know deeply that the other side of...
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
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
Marie curie - nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be...
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun - Tzu
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of all fears.
Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
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
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Jewish Prove
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.
Swedish Prove
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
C. S. Lewis
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
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
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.
Alan Stewart Paton
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
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.
Assyrian Prove
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William Gladstone
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
Hugh Prathe
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
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 optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
Marie Curie
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
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
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Susan Jeffers
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.
Joseph Conrad
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
Latin Prove
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheime
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington