Fear Quotes

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
Bertrand russell - fear is, i believe, a most effective tool in...
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
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
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Sophocles - who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them;...
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Aristotle - i have gained this by philosophy that i do...
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beeche
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
Unknown
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Bhagavad Gita
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Leon Blum
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.
Kahlil Gibran
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Dr. Robert Schulle
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
La Rochefoucauld
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
Doug Larson
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long