Fear Quotes

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

Aristotle

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Francis Bacon

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

Marie Curie

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

Mavette Sadile

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Ellen Goodman

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

Maya Angelou

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

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

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry van Dyke

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

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

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 not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Shakespeare

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

Doug Larson

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

Swedish Prove

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

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

Miguel de Cervantes

They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.

James Russell Lowell

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.

Swedish Prove

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

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

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Haniel Long

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson