Fear Quotes - Page 4

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.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.

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.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

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

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

F. D. Roosevelt

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

Bible

Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.

Elizabeth Gawain

We fear the thing we want the most.

Dr. Robert Anthony

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.

The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.

John Greenleaf Whittier

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

Juvenal

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Niccolò Machiavelli

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.

Only your mind can produce fear.

Anonymous

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Carl Jung

There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.

Mary Lyon

I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.

I am never afraid of what I know.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.

William Congreve

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Muriel Rukeyser

We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.

If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.

In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.

Statius

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Florence Nightingale

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

Bertrand Russell

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

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