Fear Quotes

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

"Swedish Proverb".

It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Doug Larson

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

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.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Marilyn C. Barrick

He who fears something gives it power over him.

Moorish Prove

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

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

John Milton

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

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

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.

Assyrian Prove

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

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 of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry van Dyke