Fear Quotes

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao - Tzu

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

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Phaedrus

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

William Lyon Phelps

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon

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

Abraham Lincoln

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.

Kahlil Gibran

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley Wellington

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Epictetus

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Jerry Gillies

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Sir Francis Bacon

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

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

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