Fear Quotes

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley Wellington

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

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

Francis Quarles

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.

Salvador Dali

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

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

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

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

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

Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

I banish fear with two words: you lead.

Demetri Kolokotronis

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Titus Livius

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fear is a great motivator.

Art Bell

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

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

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

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

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

To own is to fear.

Danish prove

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you fear change, leave it here.

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