Fear Quotes

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never take counsel of your fears.

General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Doug Larson

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Marilyn C. Barrick

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Hugh Prathe

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

William Gladstone

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

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, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

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

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittie

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Ernst Steinbeck

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

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

Assyrian Prove

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Unknown

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.

Unknown

Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson, 1801

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

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

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

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

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H. P. Lovecraft

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Sir Francis Bacon

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860