Fear Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

Warren Farrell

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Jean Baudrillard

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

Carter G. Woodson

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Christian Nestell Bovee

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean de la Bruyere

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Jimmy Carter

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Homer

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

Todd McFarlane

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Anton Chekhov

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Jesse Jackson

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Soren Kierkegaard

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

James Bovard

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Audre Lorde

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Martha Beck

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

William Jennings Bryan

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Dorothy Day

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Emile M. Cioran

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Clarence Darrow

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

John Bruton

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Georges Bernanos

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Madame de Stael

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Sun Tzu

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

J. William Fulbright

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Francis Quarles