1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
Michael Jordan

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
Marilyn Monroe

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Marilyn Monroe

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower