Fear Quotes and Proverbs

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
If you are dealing with fears and insecurities from old head programs, have compassion for yourself. Just love your insecurities, fears and resentments. Release and forgive them as they come up. Judging, beating or repressing insecurities just gives them power. Then you have a pattern that never gets resolved. Recognize that your real security is built from your relationship with your own heart.

Japenese proverb
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows

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

Babe Ruth
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Napoleon I
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Robin Williams, One Hour Photo
The things which we fear the most in life have already happend to us.

P.J. Varsalona
Clarity is obtained when you can separate your sleep dreams, your fears, your fantasies and your reality.

Dostoyevsky
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Marylin Manson
One hates what one fears.

Veer Sharma
FEAR:
F--FALSE
E--EVIDENCE
A--APPEARING
R--REAL

Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Elenor Roosevelt, You Learn By Living. 1960
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every expierence in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself. "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."

Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

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

Michael Pritchard
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Anon
You don't face your fears, you stand up to them.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First inaugural address
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Aristotle
No one loves the man whom he fears.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Byron Janis
Fear breeds fear.

NIcholas Boileau-Despresaux
Often fear of one evil leads us into a worse.

General George S. Patton
I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?"

Thucydides
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Anonymous
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.

Cervantes
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses courage loses all.

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

Channing Pollock
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Aesop
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Rodan of Alexandria
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Lewis Carroll
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Miguel de Cervantes
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Edward Morgan Forster
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Billy Graham
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

Corra Harris
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Joan L. Curcio
Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

K.D. Lang
Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin.

Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Frances Rodman
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Tobias G. Smollett
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Terence (Latin)
Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat. (Fortune favors the brave.)

Andre Norton
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Hoshang N. Akhtar
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Bernard Edmonds
To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

Lidwig Borne
The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find th fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

David Seabury
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

Voltaire
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939)
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.

Russel H. Ewing
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Doug Larson
An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

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

Morihei Ueshiba
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Louis E. Boone
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Cyril Connoly
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Edward R. Murrow
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.

Isaac Asimov
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Dale Carnegie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Louis J. Halle
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
Men imagine that celestial bodies are divine yet ascribe to them purposes inconsistent with divinity; and they anticipate eternal suffering after death. Peace of mind follows freedom from such fears, and will be gained if we trust to our immediate feelings and sensations.

Chief Aupumut, Mohican
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so 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.

Tom Robbins
When life demands more of people than they demand of life- as is ordinarily the case- what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death.

Lactantius
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Aristotle
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Joel Rosenberg
Yeah, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

Jewel Kiltcher (Singer)
The things you fear are undefeatable, not by there nature, but by your approach.

Peter Hyman
I think guns do kill people, though I suspect hate-mongering white supremacist groups that trade in fear and ignorance have something to do with it as well.

Rancid
That feeling isn't fear, it's just telling you to MOVE!!

Bertrand Russell
All forms of fear produce fatigue.

Anonymous
Fear is the prison of the heart.

Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mond of all its poers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Lloyd Cassel Douglas
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my hand into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me. The trouble is that we often die many times before death overtakes us.

Andre Gide
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Max Lerner
We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

Jawaharlar Nehru
As fear is close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Jawaharlar Nehru
A man who is afraid will do anything.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell
The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

Anon
Fear not that your life will someday end. Fear only that you do nothing with it.

Shirley MacLaine
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.
The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pray Your Gods
Is it that they fear the pain of death or could it be they fear the joy of life?

Swedish Proverb
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Anon
FEAR is just a four letter word

Thomas Bray
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.

Aristotle
No one loves the man whom he fears.

Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Anatole France
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.

H. P. Lovecraft
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

A. C. Benson
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Napoleon Bonaparte
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

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

Livy
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Edward R. Murrow
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. This is no time . . . to keep silent.