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Best Quotes About Fear (Top 100)
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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. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson -
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain -
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen -
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell -
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 -
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom -
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela -
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato -
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
Dan Brown -
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong -
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon -
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison -
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...
Leo Tolstoy -
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
Benjamin Franklin -
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain -
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement thatsomething else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon -
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Ben Okri -
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott -
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire -
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
Ted Hughes -
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
Lao Tzu -
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde -
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell -
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.
Groucho Marx -
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope -
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell -
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius -
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare -
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde -
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry -
Without fear there cannot be courage.
Christopher Paolini -
Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
Fred Rogers -
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass -
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee -
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby -
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
Marie Curie -
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde -
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Stanley Kubrick -
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.
Marilyn Manson -
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis -
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk -
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Rudyard Kipling -
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
Isabel Allende -
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller -
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
John Steinbeck -
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener -
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey -
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James -
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!
Rabindranath Tagore -
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
Natalie Goldberg -
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
Madonna -
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein -
When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears
Anthony Robbins -
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck -
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.
Franz Kafka -
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey -
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell -
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
Alfred Hitchcock -
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Abraham Maslow -
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Daniel Defoe -
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert Einstein -
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.
Fred Rogers -
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron -
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Rudyard Kipling -
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi -
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon -
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 -
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne -
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford -
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison -
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow -
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie -
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha -
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers -
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld -
F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.
Zig Ziglar -
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke -
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau -
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo F. Buscaglia -
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
Frank Sinatra -
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks -
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou -
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Herman Melville -
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc -
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace -
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Guy de Maupassant -
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver
Even More Fear Quotes
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth -
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Jack Canfield -
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco -
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman -
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.
Charles Bukowski -
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
Madonna -
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.
Chris Hedges -
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James -
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
Arthur Golden -
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce -
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is â and that’s OK.
Katie Couric -
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Clara Barton -
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach -
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco -
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Albert Bandura -
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.
Edmond Rostand -
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke -
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis -
Fear is the mind-killer.
Frank Herbert -
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler -
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison -
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
James Thurber -
Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.
Clive Barker -
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov -
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
Judy Blume -
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik Erikson -
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Erica Jong -
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan -
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
John Grisham -
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other thingsâthe disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaosâare external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
Caroline Myss -
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.
Guru Gobind Singh -
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Epicurus -
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
Bram Stoker -
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton -
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison -
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson -
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.
Harold Pinter -
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis -
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin -
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie -
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant -
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce -
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell -
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
Benjamin Franklin -
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
Bernard Law Montgomery -
The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
Richard Allen -
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
David Icke -
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar -
Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.
James M. Cain -
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman -
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
Victor Hugo -
Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.” -Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks -
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine -
Life can take so many twists and turns. You can't ever count yourself out. Even if you're really afraid at some point, you can't think that there's no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.
Portia de Rossi -
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
E. e. cummings -
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht -
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad -
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie -
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns -
Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
Thomas Harris -
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular
Edward R. Murrow -
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.
Margaret Chase Smith -
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles Davis -
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale -
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank -
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Chuck Yeager -
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens van der Post -
Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Mos Def -
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
Never take counsel of your fears.
Stonewall Jackson -
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus -
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine Paterson -
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins -
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin -
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Aristotle -
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus -
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas J. Watson -
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth -
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
Jean de La Fontaine -
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams -
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon -
My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.
Kurt Cobain -
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
Hugh Prather -
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
Adolf Hitler -
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume -
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
Amy Tan -
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
John Eldredge -
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach -
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis -
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel -
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries -
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal -
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson -
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
Alan Paton -
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu -
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized
Rod Serling -
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields -
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci -
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor -
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
Bill Russell -
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Mary Baker Eddy -
I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone -
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley -
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.
Jean Lorrain -
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol -
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Emile Zola -
Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.
Jim Butcher -
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
Giovanni Falcone -
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
Kim Jong Il -
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.
George Packer -
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne -
A man who is afraid will do anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale -
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin -
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner -
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson -
Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.
Cheri Huber -
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Lena Horne -
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
Marilyn Ferguson -
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill -
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Adolf Loos -
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan -
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein -
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCain -
There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
David Gemmell -
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans -
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
Derrick Bell -
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone -
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
Diane Abbott -
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne -
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen -
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler -
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
William O. Douglas -
I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
Judy Collins -
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young -
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau -
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams -
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fear;But, grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier -
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve -
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein -
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon -
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Honore de Balzac -
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Lewis Thomas -
Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire -
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw -
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie -
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov -
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Heinrich Heine -
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster -
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop -
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
Shirin Ebadi -
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky -
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Anwar Sadat -
Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler -
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead -
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius -
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Marilyn French -
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley -
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln -
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine -
That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.
Laurie R. King -
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach -
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin -
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks -
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman -
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 -
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson -
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
John W. Gardner -
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
Albert Einstein -
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly -
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale -
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
John Milton -
If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.
John Newton -
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
Lister Sinclair -
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder -
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp -
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 -
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln -
That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.
James M. Cain -
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Confucius -
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns -
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne -
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Charles Kennedy -
The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?
Dan Barker -
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
Georg Cantor -
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.
Indira Gandhi -
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens -
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
Daniel Boone -
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
Noel Coward -
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins -
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
Satish Kumar -
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.
Derrick Bell -
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Horace -
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Tryon Edwards -
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson -
He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.
Arthur Rimbaud -
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein -
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean Baudrillard -
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?
Henry Beston -
Every fear hides a wish.
David Mamet -
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne -
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff -
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen -
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Alfred Hitchcock -
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.
Dennis Miller -
It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
Craig Ferguson -
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in 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 -
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Bruce Barton -
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan -
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Napoleon Hill -
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
Arsenio Hall -
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Luciano Pavarotti -
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
John Milton -
Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
Elizabeth May -
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie -
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Italo Svevo -
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Elizabeth I -
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn -
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy -
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.
Ronnie Shakes -
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 -
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
Mike Tyson -
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan Paton -
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Cecil Beaton -
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
Antonio Machado -
There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
Barry Mann -
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
George Lois -
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone -
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain -
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert -
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
Horace -
Blame is for God and small children.
Dustin Hoffman -
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.
Tim LaHaye -
Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
Bryan Adams -
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan -
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon -
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland -
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Francis Beaumont -
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden -
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
Mary Stewart -
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson -
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Dustin Hoffman -
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
William Allen White -
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Walter Bagehot -
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin -
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Virgil -
...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
Andrew Lang -
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
Eric Hoffer -
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.
Ford Madox Ford -
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie -
I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.
David Crosby -
There can be no security where there is fear.
Felix Frankfurter -
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
Abraham Cowley -
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong -
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 -
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Conor Oberst -
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch -
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving -
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams -
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy -
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus -
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
David Halberstam -
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison -
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts -
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
Chin-Ning Chu -
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James -
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
John Barrymore -
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
John Paul Jones -
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthy -
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
Horace Walpole -
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.
Dorothy Thompson -
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
Herbert Simon -
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.
Andre Dubus -
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
Will Ferguson -
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
John Cheever -
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann -
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
Benjamin Whichcote -
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek -
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
John Hersey -
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps -
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.
Ken Follett -
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly -
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Arthur Somers Roche -
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Jean Anouilh -
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Muriel Rukeyser -
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy -
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schreiner -
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
Aristotle -
Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
Joy Page -
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.
Jonathan Carroll -
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Giordano Bruno -
My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.
Sonya Hartnett -
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
Adam Schiff -
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey Newton -
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan -
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter -
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho -
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw -
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide -
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus -
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller -
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
Henry Van Dyke -
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
Bernard Berenson -
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter -
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Claude Adrien Helvetius -
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers -
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 -
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus -
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
Beatrice Webb -
Fear is the brother of hate.
Larry Niven -
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
Ken Mehlman -
Wink and shut their apprehensions up.
John Marston -
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome -
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Virgil -
I have a fear of being boring.
Christian Bale -
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger—frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
Keith Ablow -
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell -
There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful
Rene Russo -
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Brooks Atkinson -
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
Leo Rosten -
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips -
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Susan Jeffers -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Natalie Goldberg -
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne -
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy -
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
John Churton Collins -
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice Walker -
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
Brian Aldiss -
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
May Sarton -
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras -
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Arthur Christopher Benson -
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith -
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
Huey Newton -
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
General George S. Patton -
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Pietro Metastasio -
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles -
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad -
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
Lucretius -
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
Anne Hutchinson -
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall -
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
William Penn -
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de la Bruyere -
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton Oursler -
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly -
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden -
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Renata Adler -
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
General George S. Patton -
Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols -
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
Ivo Andric -
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
John Paul Stevens -
The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis -
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson -
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy -
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas Coupland -
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams -
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
Jerry Pournelle -
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.
Lisa Anderson -
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Ivo Andric -
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
Edward H. Harriman -
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby Bowden -
When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.
Casey Affleck -
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire -
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Julius Caesar -
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide -
Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring.
Richard Baxter -
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne -
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock -
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie -
Fear is exciting for me.
Ayrton Senna -
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid -
Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Earl Nightingale -
In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
John J. Sweeney -
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Frederick Smith -
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Edvard Munch -
Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
Andy Partridge -
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin -
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Joseph Schwartz -
Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Jean Anouilh -
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley -
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha -
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha -
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. Bush -
Success has killed more men than bullets.
Texas Guinan -
Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly -
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. Bradley -
Anxiety is the fear of one's self.
Wilhelm Stekel -
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Earl Wilson -
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser -
Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
Leo Rosten -
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
Eva Figes -
I am never afraid of what I know.
Anna Sewell -
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
Georges Simenon -
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius -
I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor -
Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.
Tom Ridge -
Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.
Carrie Newcomer -
Fear created the first gods in the world.
Caecilius Statius -
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
James Russell Lowell -
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
William Mitford -
A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.
Charles Manson -
Fear can give you urgent wings.
Margaret Mahy -
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly -
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long -
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
Winston Churchill -
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours
Swedish Proverb -
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
Winston Churchill -
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
Franklin P. Adams -
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield -
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
John Lennon -
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
Frances Moore Lappe -
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity
Seneca -
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
Robert Burns -
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Robert Burns -
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Edmund Burke -
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Bhagavad gita -
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.
Lao Tzu -
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu -
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
Douglas MacArthur -
Deep faith eliminates fear.
Lech Walesa -
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy -
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller -
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
Louis L'Amour -
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie -
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Franklin P. Jones -
A child understands fear and the hurt and hate it brings.
Epictetus -
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
Elizabeth Dole -
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Bertrand Russell -
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 -
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
Henry H. Tweedy -
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James Anthony Froude -
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
John Milton -
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
Eric Hoffer -
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine -
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Napoleon Hill -
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Julie Burchill -
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
Thomas Hobbes -
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin -
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
Russell H. Ewing -
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice -
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Aeschylus -
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus -
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer -
Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!
William Arthur Ward -
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera -
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra -
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Robert Frost -
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine -
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon -
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates -
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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 their fears.
Winston Churchill -
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund Waller -
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer -
Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!
Og Mandino -
Fear is the mother of foresight
Thomas Hardy -
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Arthur Ashe -
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
Barry Mann -
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley -
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin -
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Matthew Henry -
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.
Andrew Jackson -
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France -
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley -
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus -
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis -
I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.
Carla Gugino -
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel Johnson -
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
A warrior never worries about his fear.
Carlos Castaneda -
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle -
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere -
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".
Friedrich Nietzsche -
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause — a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
Dr. Robert Anthony -
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
Sylvia Plath -
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard -
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Elbert Hubbard -
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard