Fear Quotes
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.Peter Medawa
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.Randolph Bourne
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
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 is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.Bertrand Russell
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
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
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
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".
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.Chinese Prove
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.William Shakespeare
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.Marianne Williamson
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.Swedish Prove
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.Samual Rutherford
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
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.James Russell Lowell
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
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.Lewis Grizzard
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Nothing is to be feared but fear.Francis Bacon
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.William Lyon Phelps
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
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?Unknown
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
