Fear Quotes
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.Assyrian Prove
Never take counsel of your fears.General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
Fear makes us feel our humanity.Benjamin Disraeli
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.Haniel Long
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.David Joseph Schwartz
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.Napoleon
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
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.Swedish Prove
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
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.Don DeLillo, White Noise
Feel the fear and do it anyway.Susan Jeffers
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.Unknown
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
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.Maya Angelou
He has no hope who never had a fear.William Cowpe
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.Cyril Connolly
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
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".
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
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
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
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
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.Cyril Connolly
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.Niccolo Machiavelli
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.Thomas Paine
The anvil fears no blows.Romanian Prove
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?Unknown
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
