Fear Quotes

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

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Benjamin Franklin

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

That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.

Don DeLillo, White Noise

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

Assyrian Prove

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

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.

Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran

Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.

Samual Rutherford

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

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

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

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

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

Thomas Jefferson

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".

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

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

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

Rodan of Alexandria

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Nikos Kazantzakis