Fear
Definition: An unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or
harm. Be afraid of (someone or something) as likely to be dangerous, painful, or harmful.
Number of Quotes: 46
There is no fear in love; but
perfect love casteth out fear: be-
cause fear hath torment. He that
feareth is not made perfect in
love.
1 John 4:18, King James Version
Holy Bible
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams
Wicked men obey for fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and
pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Aupumut
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon
He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the
beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
Terri Bowersock
No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see heaven's glories shine, and faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Warren Buffett
We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been
bestowed on us, and we don't want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up.
Justin Chancellor
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so
where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity,
our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating.
Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of
Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Cyril Connolly
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone
with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it
should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
Anne Frank
My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
George V
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you
are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Andrew Grove
Greed is even more contagious than fear.
Bud Hadfield
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
There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But
those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
Michael Heseltine
Others appear frozen in the headlights - aware of the likely impact, yet paralysed by the fear of major transformations.
Patricia Hewitt
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
Michael D. Higgins
Success is power; because it maketh reputation of wisdom, or good fortune; which makes men either fear him or rely on him.
Thomas Hobbes
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
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other;
they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
Martin Luther King Jr.
My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of
your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name
and the sky hasn't stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and
glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.
Kamand Kojouri
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the
stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is
a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in.
C. S. Lewis
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft
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
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell
The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Katherine Anne Porter
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.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk
until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than
mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Rumi
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.
Baruch Spinoza
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil
A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.
William Wrigley
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