Fear Quotes

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

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

George Washington

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

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

Ellen Goodman

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Marie Curie

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

H. L. Mencken

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Natalie Goldberg

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

Ernest Thompson Seton

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

Fear is a great motivator.

Art Bell

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

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffe

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Lori Hard

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

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil, Aeneid

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Francis Quarles

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved

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

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

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.

Lucius Accius, Fragment

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Hugh Prathe

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

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860