Fear Quotes

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Miguel de cervantes - fear is sharp - sighted, and can see things under...
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
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
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Blaise pascal - fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not,...
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
Harry s truman - when even one american - - who has done nothing...
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.
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 am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter Medawa
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
C. S. Lewis
If you fear change, leave it here.
Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
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
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
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
Harry Homes
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it... makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd Douglas
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt