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

If not for fear, sin would be sweet.

Jewish Prove

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Randolph Bourne

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Robert Oppenheime

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Cyril Connolly

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Gaius Julius Caesa

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Virgil

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.

Unknown

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

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

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

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

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Francis Quarles

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Ernst Steinbeck

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

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.

George Washington

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

H. L. Mencken

I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

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

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

C. S. Lewis

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is only one universal passion fear.

George Bernard Shaw

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato, The Republic

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