Famous Fear Quotes



We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Stendhal

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Jonson

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

Don't fear change; fear staying the same and missing out on the wonders that await you.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear God and work hard.

David Livingstone

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

Stendhal

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Publilius Syrus

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Quintilian

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wendell Phillips

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Titus Livius

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Martin Luther

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel de Cervantes

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

Karl Liebknecht

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Francis Bacon

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Charles Lamb

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

H. P. Lovecraft

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