Fear Quotes

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

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

H. A. Overstreet

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 fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.

Swedish Prove

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Prove

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John Milton

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

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

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

John Ernst Steinbeck

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.

James Russell Lowell

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.

William Hazlitt

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004