Fear Quotes

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Aristotle

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

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Robert Jones Burdette

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Publilius Syrus

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.

Swedish Prove

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

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

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Abraham Lincoln

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

La Rochefoucauld

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.

Joseph Conrad

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

Cyrus Corteise

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H. P. Lovecraft

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

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

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country

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".

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley Wellington