Fear Quotes
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.Thomas Fulle
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.William Lyon Phelps
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.Virgil, Aeneid
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
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
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.Susan Jeffers
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Shakespeare
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
Do what you fear and fear disappears.David Schwartz
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
Better hazard once than always be in fear.Thomas Fulle
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.John F. Kennedy
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.Isaac Asimov
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.Unknown
To own is to fear.Danish prove
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
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
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.Nikos Kazantzakis
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.Author Unknown
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.Aeschylus
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.Babe Ruth
If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.Chinese Prove
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.Marilyn C. Barrick
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The anvil fears no blows.Romanian Prove
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
