Fear Quotes

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.

Lloyd Douglas

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao - Tzu

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffe

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

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

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry van Dyke

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil, Aeneid

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

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

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.

Kahlil Gibran

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.

Franklin P. Jones

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.

Salvador Dali

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Gaius Julius Caesa

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

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".

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

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

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson