Fear Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -...
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
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
Aristotle - i have gained this by philosophy that i do...
Sir francis bacon,
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beeche
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
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
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Epictetus
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
Robert Mallet
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
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.
Kahlil Gibran
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson, 1801
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
Unknown
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. McIntyre
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
Robert Elwood Bly
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".