Fear quotes

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Fear always springs from ignorance.
AUTHOR: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.
AUTHOR: Aristotle

Courage is knowing what not to fear."
AUTHOR: Plato

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries
AUTHOR: George Bernard Shaw

Where fear is, happiness is not.
AUTHOR: Seneca

Fear clogs; Faith liberates
AUTHOR: Elbert Hubbard

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
AUTHOR: Dorothy Bernard

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
AUTHOR: William Shakespeare

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AUTHOR: Aristotle

Fear is a fine spur, so is rage
AUTHOR: Irish Sayings

Deep faith eliminates fear
AUTHOR: Lech Walesa

Cruelty and fear shake hands together
AUTHOR: Honore de Balzac

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
AUTHOR: Mark Twain

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

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
AUTHOR: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death
AUTHOR: Seneca

No one loves the man whom he fears.
AUTHOR: Aristotle

If fear alters behavior, you’re already defeated.
AUTHOR: Brenda Hammond

Fear those who fear not God
AUTHOR: Anonymous

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
AUTHOR: Bertrand Russell

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars
AUTHOR: Arthur Hugh Clough

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
AUTHOR: Aristotle

Fear God and he will give you knowledge
AUTHOR: Koran

Fear is the parent of cruelty.
AUTHOR: James Anthony Froude

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
AUTHOR: Dale Carnegie

Our fears always outnumber our dangers
AUTHOR: Anonymous (Latin Proverb)

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
AUTHOR: Unknown

Fear is the highest fence.
AUTHOR: Dudley Nichols

Fear may force a man to cast beyond the moon
AUTHOR: Anonymous (Proverb)

The strongest passion is fear
AUTHOR: Jean de La Fontaine

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men
AUTHOR: Hasidic Proverb

There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.
AUTHOR: Napoleon Bonaparte

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
AUTHOR: James Stephens

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear
AUTHOR: Anonymous (French Proverb)

The only known cure for fear is faith
AUTHOR: Lena Kellogg Sadler

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
AUTHOR: Jean Toomer

Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear
AUTHOR: Thomas Fuller

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
AUTHOR: Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
AUTHOR: Martin Luther King, Jr.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear
AUTHOR: Thomas Carlyle

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
AUTHOR: John Adams

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
AUTHOR: Lactantius

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
AUTHOR: Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
AUTHOR: Samuel Butler

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man
AUTHOR: Mahatma Gandhi

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear
AUTHOR: Florence Nightingale

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
AUTHOR: Anonymous (Japanese Proverb)

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear
AUTHOR: Bible

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
AUTHOR: Lord Byron

Fear God and you need not be afraid of anyone else
AUTHOR: Woodrow T. Wilson

They hate whom they fear
AUTHOR: Quintus Ennius

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
AUTHOR: Shirley MacLaine

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
AUTHOR: Anonymous

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
AUTHOR: Sonia Johnson

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions
AUTHOR: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
AUTHOR: Anonymous

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
AUTHOR: G. Gordon Liddy

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
AUTHOR: Mary Manin Morrissey

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
AUTHOR: Ambrose Redmoon

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas
AUTHOR: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without
AUTHOR: Martin Luther

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
AUTHOR: Henry Ward Beecher

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
AUTHOR: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
AUTHOR: James Thurber

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
AUTHOR: St. Francis of Assisi

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

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
AUTHOR: Confucius

Everything we do in life is based upon fear, especially love.
AUTHOR: Anonymous

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
AUTHOR: Marian Anderson