Fear Quotes

The bhagavad gita, the bhagavad gita, the bhagavad gita as translated by eknath easwaran - fear not. what is not real, never was and never...
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Unknown, sign on a restaurant tip ja - if you fear change, leave it here....
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
Fridjof Nansen
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheime
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.
Swedish Prove
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
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
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
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
Doug Larson
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
Phaedrus
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.
Joseph Conrad
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Matrix, The
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Assyrian Prove
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Fear is a great motivator.
Art Bell
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
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain