Fear Quotes

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
Virgil
C. s. lewis - no one ever told me grief felt so much like fear....
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
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
Harry s truman - when even one american - - who has done nothing...
Coleman young - courage is one step ahead of fear....
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
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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".
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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
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
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
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
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
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Prove
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.
Samual Rutherford
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?
Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
Robert Mallet