Fear Quotes

Bhagavad gita - governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on...
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Susan Jeffers
Marilyn c. barrick - for the most part, fear is nothing but an...
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Schwartz
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
Anthony Robbins
Helen kelle - avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than...
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley Wellington
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Author Unknown
If you fear change, leave it here.
Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
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
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Latin Prove
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace, Odes
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
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 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