Fear Quotes

Francis bacon - nothing is to be feared but fear....
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
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Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
Lori Hard
William shakespeare - our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the...
Danish prove - to own is to fear....
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Bhagavad Gita
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Schwartz
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
Benjamin Franklin
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.
Maitri Upanishads
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Never take counsel of your fears.
General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
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
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.
Blaise Pascal
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheime
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
"Swedish Proverb".
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph Schwartz
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Hellen Kelle
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Kelle
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
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost