Fear Quotes
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.Robyn Davidson
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.James Baldwin
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
He has no hope who never had a fear.William Cowpe
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.Katharine Butler Hathaway
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.Randolph Bourne
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.H. L. Mencken
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.Shirley MacLaine
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 only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.Henry Ward Beeche
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
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
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 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
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.Chinese Prove
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
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
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?Ernest Thompson Seton
Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.Blaise Pascal
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle, unknown
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.Madame de Sevigne
Nothing is to be feared but fear.Francis Bacon
