Fear Quotes
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Ernst Steinbeck
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.Leon Blum
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.H. A. Overstreet
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.Virgil, Aeneid
Better hazard once than always be in fear.Thomas Fulle
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.Alan Stewart Paton
To own is to fear.Danish prove
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.Horace, Odes
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.Eric Hoffe
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Steinbeck
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.Sophocles
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.Franklin P. Jones
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
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.T. S. Eliot
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie
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
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Alexander Pope, (1712)
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.Harper Lee
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
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 the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.Marie Curie
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.Susan Jeffers
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.Eric Hoffe
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.James Russell Lowell
