Fear Quotes

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

William Arthur Ward

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

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

H. L. Mencken

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Madame de Sevigne

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

Thomas Fulle

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.

Lucius Accius, Fragment

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

Never take counsel of your fears.

General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

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

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Hellen Kelle

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965

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