Fear Quotes

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

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

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Haniel Long

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Persian Prove

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

Susan Jeffers

If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.

Chinese Prove

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

David Schwartz

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

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

Aesop

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Fear is a great motivator.

Art Bell

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

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

Ambrose Redmoon

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

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

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

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Matrix, The

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

Unknown

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

Shirley MacLaine

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

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