Fear Quotes

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
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
J. k. rowling - fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself....
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A. LaFond - Lewis
I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William Gladstone
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
Thomas fulle - better hazard once than always be in fear....
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
William Lyon Phelps
Julius caesar, from plutarch, lives - it is not these well - fed long - haired men that...
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffe
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter Medawa
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Epictetus
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
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.
Roosevelt, Eleano
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
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
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.
Kahlil Gibran
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
Thomas Paine
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.
Jane Austen
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.
George Gordon Byron
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
There is only one universal passion fear.
George Bernard Shaw
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
Hasidic Saying
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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