1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Yousef Munayyer

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns

Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.
Publilius Syrus

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
Taylor Swift

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav Grof

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
Tori Amos

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
Scott Adams

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
Bryant H. McGill

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Lord Chesterfield

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce

The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La Fontaine

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Fontaine

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
Elias Canetti