Fear Quotes

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - And what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Winston Churchill

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

John Henry Newman

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

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

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

Mavette Sadile

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

Ernest Thompson Seton

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

"Swedish Proverb".

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Max Ehrmann

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

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

Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Latin Prove

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

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

John Donne

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.

Jane Austen

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Jerry Gillies

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

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

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

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Robert Frost

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

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