Fear Quotes

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

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

Eric Hoffe

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Vannevar Bush

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

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 wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Lori Hard

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

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Prove

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved

Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Anthony Robbins

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Latin Prove

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

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

Bertrand Russell

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens