Fear Quotes
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James -
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Sean Connery
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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Anthony Horowitz -
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell -
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
John Stuart Mill -
I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
Claudio Arrau -
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms -
Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.
Emily Susan Rapp
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Many of our leaders have gone past the old-fashioned politics of the democratic era and entered into the politics of fear. People running for national office no longer emphasize their views about the economy or social change. The leading political question of our time has become: who can ease our nightmares?
John Twelve Hawks -
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo -
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
Alexandre Dumas -
It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up.
Enson Inoue -
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
Willa Fitzgerald
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It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
⋅Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to not fear the truth, even when it is painful, to not hide it or cover it up. However, this does not mean enduring strategies to discredit (the Church) in general...It is appropriate, then, that we all return to calling things by their names at all times, to identify evil in all of its gravity and in the multiplicity of its manifestations.
Angelo Bagnasco -
While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy -
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare -
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.
Marianne Williamson -
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
Francis Bacon
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson Rockefeller -
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
William Ernest Henley -
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Francis Beaumont