Fear Quotes

Benjamin disraeli - the difference of race is one of the reasons why...
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
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 blind - Folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Harper lee - until i feared i would lose it, i never loved to...
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Epictetus
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle, unknown
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph 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
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
William lyon phelps - the fear of life is the favorite disease of the...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras
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
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
C. S. Lewis
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun - Tzu
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Unknown
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Joan Rivers
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles, Acrisius
Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
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
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beeche