Fear Quotes

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

James Thurbe

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Ambrose Redmoon

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

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

Francis Quarles

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

David Schwartz

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

There is only one universal passion fear.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Francis Quarles

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

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

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

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Prove

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

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Hellen Kelle

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Publilius Syrus

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Marie Curie

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

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

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Madame de Sevigne

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".

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