1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
Morihei Ueshiba

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Ben Okri

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman

Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Thomas Fuller

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov

People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon

Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Sophocles