Fear Quotes
Fear makes us feel our humanity.Benjamin Disraeli
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
Never take counsel of your fears.General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.Publilius Syrus
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.William Shakespeare
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
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.Robert Frost
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.J. K. Rowling
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.La Rochefoucauld
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
Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.Franklin P. Jones
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
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
Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.Phaedrus
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
I banish fear with two words: you lead.Demetri Kolokotronis
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
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
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
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.David Joseph Schwartz
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
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
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.Thomas Jefferson
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.T. S. Eliot
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Newman
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
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
