Fear Quotes

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Latin Prove

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Dr. Robert Schulle

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

Jean de La Bruyere

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

Eric Hoffe

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a fearful object a long - Neglected duty gets to be.

Chauncey Wright

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

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

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Robert Mallet

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

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

Unknown

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Kelle

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

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