Fear Quotes

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
William Lyon Phelps
H. l. mencken - puritanism the haunting fear that someone,...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Lloyd douglas - if a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes...
Zora neale hurston - grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast...
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William Gladstone
No one ever told me that 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
If you fear change, leave it here.
Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
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
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Baudjuin
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
Henry van Dyke
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter Medawa
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
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
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.
Unknown
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
Marie Curie
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
Albert Einstein
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.
Maitri Upanishads
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Thomas Jefferson
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Epictetus
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward Weeks
Nothing is to be feared but fear.
Francis Bacon
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens