Fear Quotes

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Vannevar Bush

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Anthony Robbins

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

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.

Swedish Prove

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Gaius Julius Caesa

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Bertrand Russell

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Hugh Prathe

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

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

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Cyril Connolly

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

Lucius Accius, Fragment

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Doug Larson

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One