1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Nagarjuna

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Roosevelt

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

Fear is the mother of foresight.
Henry Taylor