Fear Quotes

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

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, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?

Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.

Caspar de Aguila

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

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

Napoleon

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Chinese Prove

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleano

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

Harper Lee

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.

Assyrian Prove

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

Peter T. McIntyre

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers