Fear Quotes

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Latin Prove

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

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

Assyrian Prove

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

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

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 a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Kelle

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Anthony Robbins

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

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

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

It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives

I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Vannevar Bush

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

G. Macdonald

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

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

Don DeLillo, White Noise

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

If not for fear, sin would be sweet.

Jewish Prove

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

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.

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Persian Prove

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Anthony Robbins

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Virgil

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