Fear Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S. Truman

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

James Cash Penney

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Desiderius Erasmus

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James A. Baldwin

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Angela Carter

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

Cyril Connolly

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Fred Saberhagen

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Keith Miller

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Emile M. Cioran

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Harry S. Truman

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Emile M. Cioran

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

David Herbert Lawrence

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

George S. Patton

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.