Fear Quotes

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Isoroku yamamoto, after pearl harbor, japanese admiral - i fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping...
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.
Caligula (Gaius Caesar)
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
J. k. rowling, harry potter and the half - blood prince, 2005 - it is the unknown we fear when we look upon death...
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
Edward r. murrow - we will not be driven by fear into an age of...
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheime
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
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fulle
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
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
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Kelle
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo, White Noise
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
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
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
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
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.
Unknown
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".
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.
Swedish Prove
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
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
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken