Fear Quotes

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.
Maitri Upanishads
Henry david thoreau, walden - petty fears and petty pleasures are but the...
Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Abraham lincoln - with the fearful strain that is on me night and...
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
L. Neil Smith
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
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
Harry Homes
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
Edgar Watson Howe
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
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
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
Doug Larson
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
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 you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Dr. Robert Schulle
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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
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
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
Fridjof Nansen
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Thomas Jefferson
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.
Swedish Prove
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.
Franklin P. Jones
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
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
Thomas Fulle
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
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic