Fear Quotes

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - Folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.

Joseph Conrad

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Ernst Steinbeck

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

Ambrose Redmoon

He has no hope who never had a fear.

William Cowpe

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

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

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Persian Prove

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore

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

Stendhal

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

William Arthur Ward

Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

Unknown

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Vannevar Bush

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Latin Prove

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Sir Francis Bacon

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Elwood Bly

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens