Fear Quotes

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

James A. LaFond - Lewis

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Robert Jones Burdette

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

William Gladstone

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

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

They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.

James Russell Lowell

If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.

Chinese Prove

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Marie Curie

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

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

Don DeLillo, White Noise

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

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".

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

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

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

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson