Fear Quotes

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Benjamin Franklin

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Prove

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Latin Prove

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

He has no hope who never had a fear.

William Cowpe

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.

Unknown

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What a fearful object a long - Neglected duty gets to be.

Chauncey Wright

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Anthony Robbins

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.

George Washington

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

There is only one universal passion fear.

George Bernard Shaw

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.

Chinese Prove

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Peter Medawa

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Author Unknown

For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?

Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

La Rochefoucauld

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine