Fear Quotes

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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. — Jean de La Fontaine
To fear the worst oft cures the worst. — William Shakespeare
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of… — Khalil Gibran
The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder. — Lord Chesterfield
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of… — Andre Gide
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface. — Mahatma Gandhi
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it… — Cesar Chavez
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down… — Cesar Chavez
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. — George Eliot
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to… — Bertrand Russell
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice. — Horace
My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before… — Dennis Miller
I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a… — Henry David Thoreau
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit… — Florence Nightingale
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and… — Abraham Lincoln
Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my… — George Washington
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither… — Albert Einstein

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