Fear Quotes - Page 2

Fear is a fine spur.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness because illness contains information our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.

Richard Halverson

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.

John Witherspoon

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.

Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Allen H. Neuharth

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

Henry H. Tweedy

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love as if to keep it warm.

William Wordsworth

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Anonymous

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Aristotle

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.

Sophocles

I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears.

Bible

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.

Epicurus

Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.

Humor acts to relieve fear.

Dr. William F. Fry

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Jean Kerr

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

Fear drives you and makes you better.

Donna E. Shalala

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

In order to feel anything you need strength.

Anna Maria Ortese

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?

The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

Jean Craighead George

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

Edward R. Murrow

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Mark Rutherford

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

Federico Fellini

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

George Matthew Adams

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

Jean de La Fontaine

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Pauline Rose Chance

I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.

Thomas Jefferson

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

J. C. F. von Schiller

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Who is more foolish the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.

Jeraldine Saunders

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

Fear is stronger than arms.

Aeschylus

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

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