FEAR

Famous Quotes

Quote: Only your mind can produce fear. Author: A Course In Miracles Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy

Quote: As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. Author: Akhenaton BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist

Quote: Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. Author: Marian Anderson 1902-1993, American Contralto Concert and Opera Singer

Quote: An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. Author: Jean Anouilh 1910-1987, French Playwright

Quote: ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew. Author: Guillaume Apollinaire 1880-1918, Italian-born French Poet, Critic

Quote: Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. Author: Arthur Ashe 1943-1993, African-American Tennis Player

Quote: It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

Quote: You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. Author: Jane Austen 1775-1817, British Novelist

Quote: A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce. Author: Grandma Axiom

Quote: It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: 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. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better. Author: Georges Bataille 1897-1962, French Novelist, Critic

Quote: Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood. Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

Quote: Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

Quote: Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Author: James F. Bell American Educator

Quote: Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. Author: Betty Bender

Quote: The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears. Author: Arthur Christopher Benson 1862-1925, British Author, Poet

Quote: We must travel in the direction of our fear. Author: John Berryman 1914-1972, American Poet

Quote: Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. Author: Otto Von Bismarck 1815-1898, Prussian Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor

Quote: Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor

Quote: There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor

Quote: Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

Quote: Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

Quote: There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

Quote: First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. Author: Ray Bradbury 1920-, American Science Fiction Writer

Quote: The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. Author: Francis H. Bradley 1846-1924, British Philosopher

Quote: Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer

Quote: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer

Quote: When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer

Quote: The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. Author: Jean Bryant

Quote: 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. Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

Quote: When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

Quote: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

Quote: Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate. Author: Jack Canfield American Motivational Speaker, Author, Trainer

Quote: The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

Quote: 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. Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

Quote: If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

Quote: 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. Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

Quote: 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. Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

Quote: Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

Quote: The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author

Quote: If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not. Author: Ching Ning Chu Chinese-American Businesswoman, Lecturer, Author

Quote: It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

Quote: Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

Quote: He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear. Author: Claudius Claudianus 340-410, Egyptian Latin Poet

Quote: If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. Author: Arthur Hugh Clough 1819-1861, British Poet

Quote: We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

Quote: 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? Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist

Quote: Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. Author: Roger Craig American Football Player

Quote: Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it. Author: Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor

Quote: Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. Author: Stan Dale American Missionary

Quote: It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, ''Are you scared, too?'' ''You bet your sweet life I am.'' ''Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too.'' We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, ''Who else feels like this?'' the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way. Author: Stan Dale American Missionary

Quote: A fighter has to know fear. Author: Cus D'Amato American Boxing Trainer

Quote: The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. Author: Cus D'Amato American Boxing Trainer

Quote: The first and great commandment is, ''Don't let them scare you.'' Author: Elmer Davis

Quote: Fear is the biggest motivator. Author: Bill Dixon

Quote: Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. Author: Donald Downes

Quote: My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath. Author: Richard Dreyfuss 1947-, American Actor

Quote: He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

Quote: By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.'' Author: Andrea Dworkin 1946-, American Feminist Critic

Quote: It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. Author: Freeman Dyson 1923-, British-born American Physicist, Author

Quote: He without fear is king of the world. Author: E. E. Eddison

Quote: I will show you fear in a handful of dust. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

Quote: Always do what you are afraid to do. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Fear always springs from ignorance. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher

Quote: 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. Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company

Quote: Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. Author: Ed Foreman American Motivational Lecturer, Writer

Quote: Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone. Author: St. Francis De Sales 1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer

Quote: Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. Author: Viktor E. Frankl 1905-, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurology, Writer, ''Man's Search for Meaning''

Quote: There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet

Quote: Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit. Author: Marvin Gaye 1939-1984, American Soul Singer

Quote: Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Author: Jerry Gillies American Author, Speaker

Quote: The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. Author: Jean-Luc Godard 1930-, French Filmmaker, Author

Quote: It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Fear guides more than gratitude. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

Quote: Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. Author: Grace Hansen

Quote: Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another. Author: Joan C. Harvey American Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer, Author

Quote: Fear is excitement without breath. Author: Robert Heller American Business Writer, Editor of Management Today

Quote: Fear is the mind killer Author: Frank Herbert 1920-1986, American Writer

Quote: You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. Author: Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

Quote: Fears are nothing more than states of mind. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

Quote: The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

Quote: There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. Author: Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980, Anglo-American Filmmaker

Quote: 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. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

Quote: Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

Quote: Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them. Author: Bob Hoffman American Peak Performance Consultant, Author

Quote: Do what you fear most and you control fear. Author: Tom Hopkins American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author

Quote: Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. Author: Doug Horton

Quote: Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Author: Zora Neale Hurston 1903-1960, American Novelist

Quote: When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism. Author: Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

Quote: I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world. Author: Inuit Song

Quote: Never take counsel of your fears. Author: Andrew Jackson 1767-1845, Seventh President of the USA

Quote: 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. Author: Anna Jameson 1794-1860, British Essayist

Quote: Feel the fear and do it anyway. Author: Susan Jeffers American Author, Speaker

Quote: Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. Author: John Paul II 1920, Polish-Born Italian Pope

Quote: Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead. Author: John Johnson American Businessman, Founder of Johnson Publishing

Quote: Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Author: Lady Bird Johnson

Quote: Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: Fear is the sand in the machinery of life. Author: Eli Stanley Jones 1884-1973, American Missionary

Quote: My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Author: Franz Kafka 1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer

Quote: Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

Quote: Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

Quote: Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. Author: John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, British Economist

Quote: There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer

Quote: A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Author: Billie Jean King 1943-, American Tennis Player

Quote: What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986, Indian Theosophist

Quote: Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. Author: Lucius C. Lactantius 260-340, Latin Author, Apologist

Quote: Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear. Author: Lao-Tzu BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

Quote: A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. Author: Titus Livy BC 59-17 AD, Roman Historian

Quote: I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. Author: Audre Lorde

Quote: Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind. Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Quote: Great fear is concealed under daring. Author: F. L. Lucan 39-65, Roman Epic Poet

Quote: It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. Author: Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman

Quote: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Author: Shirley Maclaine 1934-, American Actress

Quote: Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?'' Author: Alexander Maclaren 1826-1910, British Preacher

Quote: It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''

Quote: Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

Quote: God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm. Author: F. B. Meyer

Quote: 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. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author

Quote: I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

Quote: The thing I fear most is fear. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

Quote: There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

Quote: I have a fear of failure. Author: Joe Montana 1956-, American Football Player

Quote: Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. Author: Gilbert Murray 1866-1957, British Classical Scholar

Quote: An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. Author: Siddha Nagarjuna c. 100-10200 AD, Indian/Tibetan Father of Mahayan

Quote: There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman

Quote: Fear is the mother of morality. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Quote: Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker

Quote: How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. Author: Florence Nightingale 1820-1910, British Nurse

Quote: You can't underestimate the power of fear. Author: Patricia Nixon

Quote: People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

Quote: No Fear. Author: No Fear Company American Clothing Company

Quote: Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. Author: James Northcote

Quote: To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time. Author: Harry A. Overstreet American Psychologist

Quote: You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off. Author: Wendell Parsons American Businessman, CEO of Stamp-Rite

Quote: If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. Author: George S. Patton 1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

Quote: There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear. Author: George S. Patton 1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

Quote: The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger. Author: Jean Paul

Quote: Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Author: Michael Pritchard

Quote: A scalded cat dreads cold water. Author: Proverb

Quote: He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. Author: Proverb

Quote: That fear may reach all, punish but few. Author: Proverb

Quote: People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin

Quote: Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God. Author: Hasidic Proverb Sayings of Hasidic Origin

Quote: Fear the man who fears you. Author: Hasidic Proverb Sayings of Hasidic Origin

Quote: He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him. Author: Moorish Proverb Sayings of Moorish Origin

Quote: Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. Author: Swedish Proverb Sayings of Swedish Origin

Quote: There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened. Author: Jules Renard 1864-1910, French Author, Dramatist

Quote: Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. Author: Ruth E. Renkel

Quote: 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. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

Quote: You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

Quote: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

Quote: Fear makes men believe the worst. Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus fl. 100 AD, Roman Historian

Quote: Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

Quote: That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

Quote: Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears. Author: Paul R. Scheele American NLP Expert and Human Potential, Author

Quote: If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

Quote: Do what you fear and fear disappears. Author: David J. Schwartz American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''

Quote: A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: Where the fear is, happiness is not. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: In time we hate that which we often fear. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: The best safety lies in fear. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. Author: Frederick Smith American Businessman, Founder of Federal Express

Quote: To him who is in fear everything rustles. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

Quote: If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. Author: Julia Sorel

Quote: Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. Author: James Stephens 1882-1950, Irish Poet, Author

Quote: Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

Quote: The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror. Author: Oliver Stone 1946-, American Director, Writer, Producer

Quote: I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable? Author: Barbara Streisand 1942-, American Singer, Actress, Director

Quote: Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer

Quote: Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus 55-117 AD, Roman Historian

Quote: Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live… Author: Dorothy Thompson

Quote: Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. Author: Virgil Thomson

Quote: People die of fright and live of confidence. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Quote: All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!! Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Fear is what kills us. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme! Author: Veda Upanishads c. BC 800-, Hindu Poetic Dialogues On Metaphysics

Quote: Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

Quote: Fear is proof of a low born soul. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

Quote: To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. Author: Edward Weeks

Quote: 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, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is 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. Author: Marianne Williamson 1952-, American Author, Lecturer on Spirituality

Quote: Fear God and you need not fear anyone else. Author: Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

Quote: A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. Author: William Wrigley Jr. 1861-1932, American Businessman, Founder of Wrigley & Co.

Quote: Less base the fear of death than fear of life. Author: Edward Young 1683-1765, British Poet, Dramatist

Quote: Action conquers fear. Author: Peter Nivio Zarlenga American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Videos

Quote: A lion among ladies is amost fearful thing; for there is not a more fearful wildfowl than your lion living. Author: Shakespeare

Quote: A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow realpoverty. Author: Hume

Quote: Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, thyGod's, and truth's. Author: Shakespeare

Quote: Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.(He is also a fool.) Author: Lazarus Long

Quote: Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else;and, therefore, they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, the Heloetius, andthe rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear that generates true courage. Author: Burke

Quote: Fear is the tax that the conscience pays to guilt. Author: Sewell

Quote: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread Author: Alexander Pope

Quote: He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires and fears, is morethan a king. Author: Milton

Quote: Hope is like the cork to the net, which keeps the soul from sinking in despair;and fear is like the lead to the net, which keeps it from floating in presumption. Author: Watson

Quote: In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, whatbegins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is thebeginning of all evil. Author: Mrs. Jameson

Quote: In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me. Author: Joseph Addison

Quote: In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. Author: Coleridge

Quote: In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared. Author: Jerome S. Bruner

Quote: It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than compassionate. Author: Niccolo Machievelli

Quote: It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly putmore upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolutionthat destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust aresweet juices. Author: Beecher

Quote: 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. Author: Franklin P. Jones

Quote: Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote: No one loves the man whom he fears. Author: Aristotle

Quote: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Author: Shakespeare

Quote: Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Author: Thomas Jefferson

Quote: The good need fear no law, It is his safety, and the bad man's awe. (Possible authors Massinger, Middleton, and Rowley) Author: Anonymous

Quote: The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good reason,that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other accidents. Author: Montaigne

Quote: There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. Author: Seneca

Quote: Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. Author: La Rochefoucauld

Quote: What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not, And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot! Author: Wordsworth

Quote: When fear admits no hope of safety, Necessity makes dastards valiant men. Author: Herrick

Quote: Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Author: Milton

Quote: Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please. Author: Cibber

Quote: Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. Author: Aristotle

Quote: The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and thepessimist fears this is true. Author: James B. Cabell

Quote: Cabell A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other. Author: Stephan Crane

Quote: 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. Author: Frank Herbert

Quote: You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Author: Eric Hoffer

Quote: It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

Quote: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quote: Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin, more even than death. Author: Bertrand Russell

Quote: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Author: Mark Twain

Quote: I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown;and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back,you'll die if you venture too far. Author: Erica Jong

Quote: Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. Author: Lucan

Quote: Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Quote: 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. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

Quote: Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. Author: Isaac Asimov

Quote: Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Author: Fyodor Dostoyevski

Quote: Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of Moderation. Author: John Milton

Quote: To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Author: Bertrand Russell

Quote: We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote: If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable. Author: John F. Kennedy

Quote: In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. Author: Coleridge

Quote: 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. Author: Alan Paton

Quote: We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Author: Anonymous

Quote: There is no more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. Author: William Hazlitt

Quote: We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. Author: Jacob Bronowski

Quote: Always do what you are afraid to do. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. Author: Franklin P. Jones

Quote: In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. Author: Johnson

Quote: He has the courage of his connections. Author: A. Hamburg

Quote: A brave man is sometimes a desperado; a bully is always a coward. Author: Haliburton

Quote: Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves; there is a nobleness of mind that heals wounds beyond salves. Author: Cartwright

Quote: If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? Author: Marvin Kitman

Quote: If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. Author: Mignon McLaughlin

Quote: The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, And feel for what their duty bids them do. Author: Byron

Quote: When fortune sends a stormy wind, Then show a brave and present mind; And when with too indulgent gales She swells too much, then furl thy sails. Author: Creech

Quote: Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Author: Oscar Wilde

Quote: Righteous indignation is bravery in a closet. Author: John Francis Putnam

Quote: There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Author: Mark Twain

Quote: Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Author: Bishop Westcott

Quote: A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. Author: Thomas Jefferson

Quote: Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. Author: Ambrose Bierce

Quote: Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. Author: Anonymous

Quote: It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. Author: Dolores Ibarruri

Quote: To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Author: Confucius

Quote: The coward threatens when he is safe. Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote: Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. Author: Miguel de Cervantes

Quote: It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. Author: Junius

Quote: Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Author: Ernest Hemingway

Quote: How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. Author: Jeremy Collier

Quote: A cowardly cur barks more fiercly than it bites. Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus

Quote: Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valient never taste of death but once. Author: William Shakespeare

Quote: A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. Author: Marvin Kitman

Quote: Coward: A man in whom the instinct of selfpreservation acts normally. Author: Sultana Zoraya

Quote: How many cowards, whose hearts are all false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars; Who inward search'd have livers white as milk? Author: Shakespeare

Quote: In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. Author: Donald Rumsfeld

Quote: Quem metuunt, oderunt. (They hate whom they fear.) Author: Quintus Ennius

Quote: The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. Author: Heinrich Himmler

Quote: Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Author: Albert Camus

Quote: Fear is the parent of cruelty. Author: James Anthony Froude

Quote: We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place. Author: John Berryman

Quote: Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you; fear not your friends, forthey can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth. Author: Edward Yashinsky

Quote: Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. Author: Usman B. Asif

Quote: The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. Author: Henry Louis Mencken

Quote: You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. Author: Mary Manin Morrissey

Quote: There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. Author: George S. Patton

Quote: Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Author: Brendan Francis

Quote: There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Author: Andre Gide

Quote: There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. Author: Frederick W. Cropp

Quote: Fear is faith that it won't work out. Author: Sister Mary Tricky

Quote: Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. Author: Arnold Glasgow

Quote: Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. Author: Henry H. Tweedy

Quote: Fear is the highest fence. Author: Dudley Nichols

Quote: Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. Author: James Hastings

Quote: To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. Author: Katherine Paterson

Quote: Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. Author: Ruth Gendler

Quote: Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Author: Shirley Maclaine

Quote: Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. Author: Brendan Francis

Quote: Fear makes us feel our humanity. Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Quote: A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. Author: George Matthew Adams

Quote: There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. Author: Aeschylus

Quote: Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. Author: Samuel Butler

Quote: Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. Author: German proverb

Quote: If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. Author: Lloyd C. Douglas

Quote: Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Author: Maurice Freehill

Quote: Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. Author: Unknown

Quote: Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. Author: Sophie Tunnell

Quote: 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. Author: Katharine Butler Hathaway

Quote: He who fears something gives it power over him. Author: Moorish proverb

Quote: Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. Author: Unknown

Quote: Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. Author: Donald Dowes

Quote: The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. Author: Betty Bender

Quote: 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. Author: Erica Jong

Quote: Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Author: Lady Bird Johnson

Quote: Men fear most what they cannot see Author: Batman Begins

Quote: we have nothing to fear but itself Author: brother ali anonymous rap artist

Quote: Fear is not in what you see, it is what you believe in. Author: Cameron Lathan

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