Fear Quotes

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Otto von Bismarck

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Joaquin Phoenix

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Ovid

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Bill Gates

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

John Berryman

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

Fulton Oursler

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Bertrand Russell

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

David Icke

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Isabel Allende

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Eugene O'Neill

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Eddie Rickenbacher

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

Marcus Aurelius