Fear Quotes

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.

Edgar Watson Howe

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Marie Curie

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

He who fears something gives it power over him.

Moorish Prove

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

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

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Sophocles

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil, Aeneid

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Publilius Syrus

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

H. L. Mencken

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

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

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

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Harry Homes

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Prove

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

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

C. S. Lewis

Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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

Rodan of Alexandria

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

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Cyril Connolly