Fear Quotes

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Robert Mallet

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

G. Macdonald

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun - Tzu

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

George Washington

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

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

William Lyon Phelps

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

William Gladstone

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon

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

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

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

Cyrus Corteise

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Cyril Connolly

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leon Blum