Fear Quotes
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.Joseph Conrad
To own is to fear.Danish prove
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.Nikos Kazantzakis
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.Niccolo Machiavelli
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
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
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.Bertrand Russell
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.James Thurbe
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
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.Lucan
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
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
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.Virgil
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.Napoleon
Let them hate so long as they fear. Oderint Dum Metuant.Lucius Accius, Fragment
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
To him who is in fear everything rustles.Sophocles, Acrisius
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril Connolly
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.L. Neil Smith
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.Epictetus
Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.Caligula (Gaius Caesar)
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
As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I knowUnknown
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.Unknown
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.Unknown
