Fear Quotes

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.

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

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

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

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.

Assyrian Prove

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Aeschylus

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Sophocles

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

David Schwartz

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Dr. Robert Schulle

May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Hugh Prathe

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Anthony Robbins

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

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

Aesop

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

Marilyn C. Barrick

Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.

Lucius Accius, Fragment