Fear Quotes
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.Latin Prove
Ignorance is the mother of fear.Harry Homes
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley
Fear makes us feel our humanity.Benjamin Disraeli
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.Cyril Connolly
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.Bertrand Russell
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.Unknown
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.Harry S Truman
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
He who fears something gives it power over him.Moorish 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
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.Publilius Syrus
Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.Virgil
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
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.Robert Oppenheime
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.Horace, Odes
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.James Stephens
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
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
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?Robert Mallet
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis