Fear Quotes
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 only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.Sir Francis Bacon
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.Bertrand Russell
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.Niccolo Machiavelli
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.William Arthur Ward
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.Lloyd Douglas
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.Franklin P. Jones
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.Phaedrus
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.Sir Winston Churchill
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.Unknown
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
Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.Caspar de Aguila
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.Susan Jeffers
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.Henry van Dyke
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.Caligula (Gaius Caesar)
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.H. P. Lovecraft
For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.Napoleon Bonaparte
