Fear Quotes
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.John Donne
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
I have built my organization upon fear.Al Capone
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.H. A. Overstreet
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.Marquis de Vauvenargues
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.David Joseph Schwartz
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
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
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.Assyrian Prove
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.Epictetus
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Roosevelt, Eleano
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
If you fear change, leave it here.Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.Swedish Prove
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.James Russell Lowell
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
To him who is in fear everything rustles.Sophocles, Acrisius
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Ernst Steinbeck
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
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.Thomas Fulle
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
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
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
