Fear Quotes

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Francis Quarles

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Elbert Hubbard

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

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

Chinese Prove

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

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

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

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince