Fear Quotes

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch
Maya angelou - courage is fear that has said its prayers....
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
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
Virgil
Henry wadsworth longfellow - look not mournfully into the past. it comes not...
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
Ralph waldo emerson - the wise man in the storm prays god, not for...
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.
Samual Rutherford
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Bruyere
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
Persian Prove
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andr Gide
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph Schwartz
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
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
John Milton
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope, (1712)
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
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
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
"Swedish Proverb".
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Hadewijch of Antwerp