Fear Quotes
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.James Stephens
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.Napoleon
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.Babe Ruth
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.James Thurbe
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.G. Macdonald
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Newman
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 I am afraid of is fear.Arthur Wellesley Wellington
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.Marie Curie
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
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.Isaac Asimov
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.Dr. Robert Schulle
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.Cyril Connolly
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
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
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
He who fears something gives it power over him.Moorish Prove
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.Lucan
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.Cyril Connolly
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
