Fear Quotes

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffe
Sophocles, acrisius - to him who is in fear everything rustles....
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
Thomas jefferson - we confide in our strength, without boasting of...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Caspar de aguila - porque el miedo, sin ser dios, suele hacer algo...
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
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
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
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
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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 not to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
Kahlil Gibran
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
Robert Elwood Bly
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Hadewijch of Antwerp
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Leon Blum
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
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
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan