Fear Quotes

Cyril connolly - the dread of loneliness is greater than the fear...
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil, Aeneid
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Eric hoffer, the passionate state of mind, 1954 - it is when power is wedded to chronic fear that...
Joseph chilton pearce - to live a creative life, we must lose our fear of...
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.
Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Joan Rivers
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Jerry Gillies
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson, 1801
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.
John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
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
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
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 no to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
Benjamin Franklin
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?
Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?
Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.
Bertrand Russell
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Bhagavad Gita
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph Schwartz
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow