Fear Quotes

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
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Franklin d. roosevelt - there is nothing to fear but fear itself....
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
Thomas Fulle
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Latin Prove
Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - And what do you get? The sum of their fears.
Winston Churchill
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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
Seneca - to be feared is to fear no one has been able to...
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
Edgar Watson Howe
Cyril connolly - as repressed sadists are supposed to become...
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.
James Russell Lowell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Prove
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Author Unknown
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Author Unknown
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurbe
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
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
William Fullbright
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
Anthony Robbins
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
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
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Robyn Davidson
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
Kahlil Gibran
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
Cyrus Corteise
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
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
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
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
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.
Joseph Conrad
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown
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
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffe