Fear Quotes

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Madame de Sevigne

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

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

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

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

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

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

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

Mavette Sadile

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Lucan

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

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

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.

Swedish Prove

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

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Peter T. McIntyre

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

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