Fear Quotes

Lucius accius, fragment - let them hate so long as they fear. oderint dum...
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Hellen Kelle
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
Aristotle, unknown - a tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon...
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
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 no to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of all fears.
Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
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
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
If not for fear, sin would be sweet.
Jewish Prove
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
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
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
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
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 central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
"Swedish Proverb".
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Susan Jeffers
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope, (1712)
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Schwartz
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln
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