Fear Quotes

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

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

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

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

Edgar Watson Howe

Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.

Caspar de Aguila

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Philip Gulley

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fear is a great motivator.

Art Bell

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Harry Homes

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

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

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Hugh Prathe

That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.

Don DeLillo, White Noise

Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.

Swedish Prove

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

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

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Author Unknown

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

Mavette Sadile

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

Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)

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

Abraham Lincoln

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Unknown

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles, Acrisius

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

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

Phaedrus

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore