Fear Quotes

Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.
Lucius Accius, Fragment
Marcus aelius aurelius - it is not death that a man should fear, but he...
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
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
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus
Plato, the republic - mankind censure injustice fearing that they may...
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.
John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
Philip crosby, reflections on quality - slowness to change usually means fear of the new....
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Marilyn C. Barrick
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Assyrian Prove
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil, Aeneid
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
Madame de Sevigne
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Hadewijch of Antwerp
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Baudjuin
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca
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
Never take counsel of your fears.
General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
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
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
Lori Hard
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
Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - Folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson