Fear Quotes

John milton - he who reigns within himself and rules his...
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
Horace smith - courage is the fear of being thought a coward....
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.
Swedish Prove
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fulle
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
Sri da Avabhas
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
Jane austen - where so many hours have been spent in convincing...
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Ernst Steinbeck
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
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Cyril Connolly
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
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
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
Rodney Yee
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Bhagavad Gita
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
Miles Davis
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?
Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles, Acrisius
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Prove
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
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
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