Fear Quotes

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

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

Napoleon

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

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

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Matrix, The

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Robert Mallet

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

Marilyn C. Barrick

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

La Rochefoucauld

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

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

Leon Blum

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Anthony Robbins

When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.

Harry S Truman

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

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

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

William Shakespeare

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament