Fear Quotes

Henry van dyke - time is too slow for those who wait, too swift...
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
Unknown - fear clouds your mind, it distracts your...
Anthony robbins - let fear be a counselor and not a jailer....
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley Wellington
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Leon Blum
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd Douglas
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne
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
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To own is to fear.
Danish prove
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.
Alan Stewart Paton
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
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
G. Macdonald
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.
John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.
Kahlil Gibran
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
John Milton
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
Cyrus Corteise
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.
James Russell Lowell
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck