Fear Quotes

John steinbeck - power does not corrupt. fear corrupts... perhaps...
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
Lord chesterfield, letter to his godson, december 18, 1765 - wit is so shining a quality that everybody...
Never take counsel of your fears.
General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
Robert Mallet
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd Douglas
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
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
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 nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andr Gide
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
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
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Ernest Thompson Seton
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
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
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
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
Henry van Dyke
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
For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?
Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
Thomas Paine
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus
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
Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.
Blaise Pascal
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou