Fear Quotes

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

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

William Arthur Ward

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

To own is to fear.

Danish prove

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun - Tzu

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

Don DeLillo, White Noise

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.

Lucius Accius, Fragment

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Harry Homes

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Eric Hoffe

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

What a fearful object a long - Neglected duty gets to be.

Chauncey Wright

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

G. Macdonald

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley Wellington

They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.

James Russell Lowell

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fulle

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Vannevar Bush

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleano

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie