Fear Quotes
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
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
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
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
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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 believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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
Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.Caspar de Aguila
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
To him who is in fear everything rustles.Sophocles, Acrisius
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
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
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.G. Macdonald
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
To own is to fear.Danish prove
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
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.Jewish Prove
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Ernst Steinbeck
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Alexander Pope, (1712)
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
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
Ignorance is the mother of fear.Harry Homes
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.William Gladstone
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that 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
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.Hugh Prathe
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.Publilius Syrus
