Fear Quotes

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
Jim morrison - expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that,...
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Hellen Kelle
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 we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Unknown
Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.
Caligula (Gaius Caesar)
Caspar de aguila - porque el miedo, sin ser dios, suele hacer algo...
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Chinese prove - if you stand straight do not fear a crooked...
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. McIntyre
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
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
Madame de Sevigne
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
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
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beeche
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
Sri da Avabhas
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
He has no hope who never had a fear.
William Cowpe
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
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurbe
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
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
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
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Whatever you fear most has no power - It is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon