Fear Quotes

Albert einstein - if people are good only because they fear...
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.
Jane Austen
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002
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
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
"Swedish Proverb".
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
Phaedrus
Unknown - if we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse...
James baldwin - love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live...
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Susan Jeffers
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
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope, (1712)
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
Persian Prove
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Natalie Goldberg
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley Wellington
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Lucius Accius
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
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
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
Miles Davis
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
William Lyon Phelps
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.
Unknown
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. McIntyre
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
Hugh Prathe
What a fearful object a long - Neglected duty gets to be.
Chauncey Wright
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