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

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Anthony Robbins

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Epictetus

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

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

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.

Kahlil Gibran

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

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

John Dryden

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

Francis Bacon

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.

Lloyd Douglas

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffe

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson