Fear Quotes

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?

Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.

Edgar Watson Howe

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Shakespeare

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

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

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

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

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.

Assyrian Prove

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

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, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

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

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

William Gladstone

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

Thomas Fulle

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Never take counsel of your fears.

General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

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