Fear Quotes

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

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

Aristotle

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Robert Mallet

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Benjamin Franklin

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

John Dryden

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

I banish fear with two words: you lead.

Demetri Kolokotronis

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

William Gladstone

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Kahlil Gibran

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

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

Lori Hard

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

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

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 not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove