Fear Quotes
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
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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 makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
Truth fears no questions.Anonymous
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
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 passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
In time we hate that which we often fear.William Shakespeare
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.Robert Frost
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
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
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.Abraham Maslow
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.Aesop
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
He who fears something gives it power over him.Moorish Prove
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
I have built my organization upon fear.Al Capone
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.Dr. Robert Schulle
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.Vannevar Bush
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol