Fear Quotes

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.

Joseph Conrad

I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

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

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

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

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Persian Prove

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Bertrand Russell

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Cyril Connolly

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

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

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Latin Prove

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon

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

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Latin Prove

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leon Blum

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Robert Oppenheime

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Anthony Robbins

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Randolph Bourne

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Marilyn C. Barrick