Fear Quotes

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

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John Milton

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.

Swedish Prove

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Lucan

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

Unknown

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

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 are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Virgil

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

David Schwartz

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Haniel Long

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila