Fear Quotes

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
Anonymous - truth fears no questions....
Eric hoffe - we have perhaps a natural fear of ends. we would...
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
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun - Tzu
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul David Alinsky
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
Edgar Watson Howe
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
Latin Prove
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
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
Amelia earhart - courage is the price that life exacts for...
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
Albert Einstein
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
Thomas Fulle
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
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
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Lucius Accius
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
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Anthony Robbins