Fear Quotes
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying.Jalal ud - Din Rumi
An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.Doug Larson
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
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
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
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.Marilyn Ferguson
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril Connolly
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
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.Author Unknown
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.Phaedrus
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.Jerry Gillies
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.Cyril Connolly
Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - And what do you get? The sum of their fears.Winston Churchill
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.Stendhal
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.Pope John Paul II
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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.T. S. Eliot
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.Epictetus
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie
Nothing is to be feared but fear.Francis Bacon
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.Marie Curie
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.Jean de La Bruyere
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.Napoleon Bonaparte
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.Titus Livius
