1,896 quotes
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus
Explorer · Italian
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Mary Harris Jones
Activist · American · 1837 – 1930
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger
Critic · American · 1904 – 1980
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
Soldier · American · 1885 – 1945
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
Soldier · American · 1880 – 1964
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
George Murray
Poet · Canadian
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco
Novelist · Italian · b. 1932
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
Arianna Huffington
Journalist · American · b. 1950
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Philosopher · Greek
Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Statesman · Roman
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera
Writer · Czechoslovakian · b. 1929
Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
Michael O'Donoghue
Writer · American · 1940 – 1994
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
Poet · American · 1888 – 1965
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther
Leader · German · 1483 – 1546
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden
Poet · English · 1631 – 1700
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie
Writer · American · 1888 – 1955
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Chuck Palahniuk
Novelist · American · b. 1961
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Scientist · American
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Paul Tsongas
Politician · American · 1941 – 1997
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director · English · 1899 – 1980
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein
Designer · American · b. 1942
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
Amy Tan
Novelist · American · b. 1952
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
Author
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
Saadi
Poet · Iranian
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet · American · 1803 – 1882
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer · French · 1613 – 1680
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
Poet · American
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
David Brainerd
Clergyman · American
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
John Lubbock
Statesman · British · 1834 – 1913
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
Novelist · American · b. 1941
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley
Writer · American
Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
Carly Fiorina
Businessman · American · b. 1954
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
Phillip E. Johnson
Educator · American
The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
Eliot Engel
Politician · American · b. 1947
I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.
William John Wills
Scientist · English
The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
Trip Hawkins
Businessman · American · b. 1953
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
Dan Rather
Journalist · American · b. 1931
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming
Scientist · American · 1900 – 1993
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
James Lane Allen
Author · American · 1849 – 1925
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
President · American · 1743 – 1826
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Robert Anton Wilson
Writer · American · b. 1932
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
George Weinberg
Psychologist · American
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
Poet · English · 1572 – 1637
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
John Cheever
Writer · American · 1912 – 1982
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer
Novelist · English · b. 1923
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis
Playwright
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
John Mason Brown
Critic · American · b. 1900