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Deep Fear Quotes

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational Fear Quotes

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

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mohandas Gandhi

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Mohandas Gandhi

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas Jefferson

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Fear Quotes About Strength

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

John Doolittle

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Abdul Kalam

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Gijs de Vries

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

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Wangari Maathai

More Fear Quotes

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

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

Bertrand Russell

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Richard M. Nixon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Marcus Aurelius

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Miguel de Cervantes

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Benjamin Disraeli

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Edgar Allan Poe

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

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

Edgar Allan Poe

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Benjamin Franklin

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Bryant H. McGill

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

Plutarch

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de la Bruyere

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Brian Tracy

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

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