Fear Quotes

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.

Assyrian Prove

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".

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

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

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

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

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

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

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.

Caspar de Aguila

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

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

Miles Davis

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon

The anvil fears no blows.

Romanian Prove

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

Henry van Dyke

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

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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

Salvador Dali

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Lucan

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Robert Oppenheime

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Latin Prove

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

Francis Bacon

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Epictetus