Fear Quotes

William cowpe - he has no hope who never had a fear....
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
Thomas Fulle
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lucan - a show of daring oft conceals great fear....
Dr. david m. burns - aim for success, not perfection. never give up...
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
Phaedrus
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Joan Rivers
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
Cyrus Corteise
Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
Virgil
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph Schwartz
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
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
Fridjof Nansen
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.
Caspar de Aguila
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
Benjamin Franklin
Fear is a great motivator.
Art Bell
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
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
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy