Fear Quotes
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
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
Do what you fear and fear disappears.David Schwartz
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I knowUnknown
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Robert Elwood Bly
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.William Lyon Phelps
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.Susan Jeffers
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
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
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
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.Marquis de Vauvenargues
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.Henry Van Dyke
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.Haniel Long
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.Pope John Paul II
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.John Ernst Steinbeck
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
I have built my organization upon fear.Al Capone
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.Benjamin Franklin
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
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
