Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Fear.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
André Gide
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
Jack Canfield
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Robert Anton Wilson
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann von Goethe
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Aristotle
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
Don DeLillo
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton
Those who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath Tagore
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Charles Stanley
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Robert Fulghum
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
Warren Buffett
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
John Maynard Keynes
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter