Fear Quotes

William cowpe - he has no hope who never had a fear....
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
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.
Jane Austen
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 nothing to fear but fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin d. roosevelt, first inaugural address, mar. 4, 1933 - first of all, let me assert my firm belief that...
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
Unknown
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Epictetus
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
Hugh Prathe
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
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Prove
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
Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.
Lucius Accius, Fragment
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
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
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
Hasidic Saying
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
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
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
Edgar Albert Guest
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?
Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffe
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
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
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith