Fear Quotes

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
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
Dr. david m. burns - aim for success, not perfection. never give up...
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Prove
It is not these well - Fed long - Haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry - Looking.
Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives
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
Pope john xxiii - consult not your fears but your hopes and your...
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Matrix, The
Franklin d. roosevelt, fourth inaugural address, jan. 20, 1945 - we can gain no lasting peace if we approach it...
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of all fears.
Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.
Bertrand Russell
He has no hope who never had a fear.
William Cowpe
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
Edgar Watson Howe
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Author Unknown
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
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson, 1801
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
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
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
C. S. Lewis
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace, Odes
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph Schwartz
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
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.
Eleanor Rosevelt
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beeche
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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