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
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
Erwin McManus
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Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.
Adam Lashinsky
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
Moliere
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
Ajahn Brahm
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Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.
Suheir Hammad
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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
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Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
Barbara Wood
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Fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.
Evadne Price
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
Anne Hathaway
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My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
Danzy Senna
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch
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But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
Gautama Buddha
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No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.
Epictetus
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Every single night I'm nervous.
Vivien Leigh
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Courage is not the absence of fear...
Richard Stengel
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I don't think fear that you share with the whole world warps you. It's personal fears that do that.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.
Janine di Giovanni
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
Seneca the Younger
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Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.