Fear Quotes

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

William Arthur Ward

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

Marilyn Ferguson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

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".

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

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

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.

Kahlil Gibran

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

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

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

Robert Mallet

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

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

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Titus Livius

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Marie Curie

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Vannevar Bush

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - - This is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

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

Jean de La Bruyere

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

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

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.

Lloyd Douglas

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