Fear Quotes
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.Sir Winston Churchill
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.Marie Curie
Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.Virgil
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.Isaac Asimov
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
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.Saint Teresa of Avila
I banish fear with two words: you lead.Demetri Kolokotronis
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.C. S. Lewis
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.Maya Angelou
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.Andr Gide
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
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
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.Bertrand Russell
It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."Swedish Proverb".
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.Virgil, Aeneid
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.Seneca
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.Susan Jeffers
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
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
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.Buddha
