Fear Quotes

Unknown - the root of fear is the death of yourself or...
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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
Chinese prove - if you stand straight do not fear a crooked...
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long
Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.
Blaise Pascal
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
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
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
Rodney Yee
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William Gladstone
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward Weeks
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
Lori Hard
There is only one universal passion fear.
George Bernard Shaw
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Anthony Robbins
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffe
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.
Bonaro Overstreet
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
Kahlil Gibran