Fear Quotes

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

John Donne

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Lori Hard

Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.

Salvador Dali

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

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

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Peter Medawa

Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

James A. LaFond - Lewis

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

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

Jean de La Bruyere

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

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

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Harry Homes

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

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

Marilyn Ferguson

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Max Ehrmann

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Latin Prove