Fear Quotes
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
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.Salvador Dali
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
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
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
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Ernst Steinbeck
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.Shakti Gawain
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.Fridjof Nansen
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads