Fear Quotes
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.James Thurbe
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.James Baldwin
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
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.Assyrian Prove
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
To own is to fear.Danish prove
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Alexander Pope, (1712)
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley
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
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.Marilyn C. Barrick
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
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
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.James Thurbe
I banish fear with two words: you lead.Demetri Kolokotronis
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
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.Eric Hoffe
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.Peter T. McIntyre
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Cardinal Newman
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.Bertrand Russell
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
