Fear Quotes

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

Ernest Thompson Seton

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao - Tzu

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Eric Hoffe

I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

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

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak

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

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

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

Francis Bacon

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

Robert Mallet

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

Vannevar Bush

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

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

Bertrand Russell

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

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

George Washington

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

Henry van Dyke

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

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?

Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Abraham Maslow

For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?

Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Titus Livius

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

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

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

William Shakespeare