Fear Quotes

11978 Fear quotes by 5316 unique authors

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with… — Hugh Prather
When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish — David Mamet
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a… — Harry S. Truman
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. — Joan Rivers
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. — Elinor Wylie
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs… — Ron Paul
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear. — Tony Robbins
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. — Susan Jeffers
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. — Bertrand Russell
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca the Younger
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger. — Henry Ward Beecher
When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities. — Adolf Hitler
People tolerate those they fear further than those they love. — E. W. Howe
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they… — William Wordsworth
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. — Miguel de Cervantes
Be just, and fear not. — William Shakespeare
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. — Walter Raleigh
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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