Fear Quotes

Kahlil gibran - we fear death, yet we long for slumber and...
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
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Lucius Accius
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Author Unknown
David schwartz - do what you fear and fear disappears....
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
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
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
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
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
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
Madame de Sevigne
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
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
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
Never take counsel of your fears.
General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - And what do you get? The sum of their fears.
Winston Churchill
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
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
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles, Acrisius
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
Cyrus Corteise