Fear Quotes
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
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
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
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
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
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
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
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.James Stephens
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.Isaac Asimov
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
Fear is sharp - Sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.Miguel de Cervantes
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.Kahlil Gibran
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
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle, unknown
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.Stendhal
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
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
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.Henry van Dyke
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.Niccolo Machiavelli
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.Theodore Roethke
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - The cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.G. Macdonald
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
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
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.Saul David Alinsky
