1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Isoroku Yamamoto

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
Xun Zi

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Jesse Jackson

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin Disraeli

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Matthew Henry

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst

Fear is exciting for me.
Ayrton Senna

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
Charles Bronson

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley