Fear Quotes

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

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

H. L. Mencken

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

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

Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

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

Lucius Accius, Fragment

Never take counsel of your fears.

General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Philip Gulley

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.

Franklin P. Jones

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

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

Ross Hersey

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

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

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson, 1801

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Robert Mallet

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Ernst Steinbeck

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt