Fear Quotes
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Cardinal Newman
As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I knowUnknown
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
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril Connolly
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
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.John F. Kennedy
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.Lewis Grizzard
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.Susan Jeffers
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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Shakespeare
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.Lloyd Douglas
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
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
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 expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.Nikos Kazantzakis
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.Bertrand Russell
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.Theodore Roethke
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.Marianne Williamson
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
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...CIA Manual
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
