Be good be serviceable, Be useful be kind and Be God-fearing.
Sai BabaFear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale CarnegieHe who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you listen to your fears you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. SchullerFear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.
William CongreveWe fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham MaslowSince it is difficult to join them together it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo MachiavelliFor in the end freedom is a personal and lonely battle, and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice WalkerThere is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry MillerI fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times.
Bruce LeeI shall be with you wherever you are guarding you and guiding you. March on have no fear.
Sai BabaOur government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthurThere are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar WildeA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de MontaigneFear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellHatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried never hurried never borne down by any fear thought or anxiety.
Sai BabaInaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale CarnegieMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.
Francis BaconLook not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSimulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage, simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao TzuSeverity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.
Francis BaconHe who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
ChanakyaThe thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de MontaigneExploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety, is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
Paul RyanLove will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord ByronIt is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus AureliusThe worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
Richard BachThe Lord too has to come in human form and moves about among men so that He could be listened to contacted loved revered and obeyed. He has to speak the language of men and behave like human beings as the member of the species Otherwise He would be either negated and neglected or feared and avoided.
Sai BabaFear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert HubbardMeanwhile fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world
Isaac AsimovFear follows crime and is its punishment.
VoltaireExcessive fear is always powerless.
AeschylusI'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Taylor SwiftAn oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
ConfuciusThe one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. MenckenHe who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon BonaparteGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong, he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell BoveeMy "fear" is my substance and probably the best part of me.
Franz KafkaLove takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Arthur BaldwinThe world we see, that seems so insane, is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William JamesCharity puts and end to poverty, righteous conduct to misery, discretion to ignorance, and scrutiny to fear.
ChanakyaNothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert CamusI never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me every time they emerge. They cannot shock me for I willed them! Bring me your confusion your fear your craving your anxiety your inability to love the world your hesitation to serve your jealousy all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
Sai BabaNo work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsAs a child I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
Dave BarryThere is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliNothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity that is to say it cannot know itself not can it know others, It has no fear, it will not bend before others, it degrades man from the golden glory which is his due to the level of lowly dust.
Sai BabaA fearful man is always hearing things.
SophoclesThe Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Where there is reverence there is fear but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
SocratesHe who runs away from a fearful calamity a foreign invasion a terrible famine and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
ChanakyaThe 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 BonaparteTo suffering there is a limit, to fearing none.
Francis BaconWhen someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
Alanis MorissetteLove and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph JoubertThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar WildeThere are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
AeschylusYou must not fear death my lads, defy him and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon BonaparteWhy fear when I am here? Put all your faith in Me. I shall guide you and guard you.
Sai BabaI just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady GagaWhen the will defies fear when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green IngersollTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius CiceroObstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards, but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you, but if you look them squarely in the eye they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett MardenFix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas JeffersonThe thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert HubbardThe course of this conflict is not known yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. BushIt is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear
Francis BaconI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac AsimovWe fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal private solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim MorrisonThe time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. PattonMinds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
OvidThey who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure
James AllenTruth has no fear, Untruth shivers at every shadow.
Sai BabaFear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais NinMen ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely offend them they take vengeance but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliOur thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak ChopraYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric HofferThere are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon BonaparteEverywhere that freedom stirs let tyrants fear.
George W. BushUnless India stands up to the world no one will respect us. In this world fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
Abdul KalamProsperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity of the New which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God Francis Bacon
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. MaxwellThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltFear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. RowlingThere will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. EdisonThe land of self-interest groans from shore to shore / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.
Lord ByronThe Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAs you know from school it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared even if you fail you've done your best.
Alice WalkerTragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
AristotleThe fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous, it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Emile ZolaCrime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. CioranRealists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor DostoevskyIn this busy age of fear and anxiety the remembrance of God and repetition of His name is the one means of liberation that is accessible to all.
Sai BabaSo long as you say I am . there is bound to be fear but once you say and feel I am GOD you get unconquerable strength.
Sai BabaSome lives are highly artificial. People are sunk in fear and anxiety, mentally on one side and physically on the other they have no rest. Drugs tablets capsules and pills are produced in millions but the general health has not improved. Besides new varieties of illness have emerged and are developing fast.
Sai BabaHe is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy, whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude
AristotleI more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin LutherThe fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric HofferI fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. Lovecraft`Father O father! what do we here, In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star.
William BlakeCourage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. PattonI don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac ShakurBiography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar WildeFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul SartreA word does not frighten the man who in acting feels no fear.
SophoclesThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
StendhalThe reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston ChurchillPresident Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things distractions distortions smear fear anger frustration.
Paul RyanWhen the people fear the government there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty.
Thomas JeffersonSatirists gain the applause of others through fear not through love.
William HazlittEvents that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.
Amelia BarrThinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement StoneThe generality of men are naturally swayed more by fear than by reverence and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness
AristotleDon't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe RuthCruelty is softened by fear not pity.
Mason CooleyOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria RilkeIt is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I still had a daughter who I adored and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingWhat I needed most was to love and to be loved eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me, and sure enough I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy by suspicions and fear by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint AugustineCourageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.
Nelson MandelaExpose yourself to your deepest fear, after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim MorrisonWhen we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Orison Swett MardenIt is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
SophoclesI don't believe in an afterlife so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac AsimovVast and fearsome as the human scene has become personal contact of the right people in the right places at the right time may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.
Winston ChurchillLove can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can, and when once you take hope and fear away you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren BuffettIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusAll of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling of the dark of lobsters of falling on lobsters in the dark or speaking before a Rotary Club and of the words "Some Assembly Required
Dave BarryThe appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim MorrisonEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell BoveeYou are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat but you will not live.
George Bernard ShawMen! The only animal in the world to fear.
David Herbert LawrenceI am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country in a world based on fear.
Michelle ObamaWe are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor RooseveltI believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor RooseveltFear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel ButlerI do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of AvilaFears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Napoleon HillDo the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale CarnegieFears and lies intensify consciousness.
Mason CooleyTo have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it, those who have fear it.
HoraceWhen our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
Paul RyanWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TecumsehLiberalism above all means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears his inadequacies from prejudice from discrimination from poverty.
Hubert H. HumphreyPeople fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.
Jim MorrisonAll is to be feared where all is to be lost
Lord ByronThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de MontaigneLove is full of anxious fears.
OvidThat man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole FranceI did not consume any food drink or product from any of the hotels for fear of sabotage. The cooler was full of incredibly top-secret and potentially illegal water cereals jams bread salt pepper butter etc.
Lance ArmstrongI do not say think as I think but think in my way. Fear no shadows least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas HuxleyI don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy LamarrWe of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared for after all we have nothing to lose.
George OrwellI will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. EliotHe who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
Michel de MontaigneI'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George EliotThis man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall, Lord of himself though not of lands And leaving nothing yet hath all.
Lord ByronCruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas FullerAlas! The love of women! it is known to be a lovely and fearful thing!
Lord ByronThe greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.
Sai BabaHave no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador DaliAn anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
OvidFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest HemingwayFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteQuestion with boldness even the existence of a God, because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas JeffersonTiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William BlakeDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand RussellThere is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas JeffersonTaking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most.
Benjamin DisraeliThat fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George SantayanaThe joys of parents are secret and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis BaconThe beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Charles LambDeath is a fearful thing.
William ShakespeareThe general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun TzuIt's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlinA tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.
AristotleFear is proof of a degenerate mind.
VirgilWhen one has the feeling of dislike for evil when one feels tranquil one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings, when one has these feelings and appreciates them one is free of fear.
BuddhaWe shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow free and open across international boundaries.
Harry S. TrumanDeath is not the biggest fear we have, our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Miguel Angel RuizA blade of grass is light cotton, is lighter the beggar, is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.
ChanakyaListen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard BachWhen internal examination discovers nothing wrong what is there to be anxious about what is there to fear?
ConfuciusMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales so is the other.
Francis BaconCourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PlutarchFear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. FranklI have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
Taylor SwiftWe have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric HofferBe like the lions in the spiritual field rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.
Sai BabaThe only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George EliotWhat is needed rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance is understanding fear, that means watch it learn about it come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear not how to escape from it.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiYou pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Doug CouplandA 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 KrishnamurtiFate loves the fearless.
James Russell LowellIt is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret MeadProsperity is not without many fears and distaste, adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis BaconIn every cry of every man In every infant's cry of fear In every voice in every ban The mind-forged manacles I hear.
William BlakeWhile there's life there's fear.
Mason CooleyFear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. GlasowIt is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.
Niccolo MachiavelliI think we have to own the fears that we have of each other and then in some practical way some daily way figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerThe joys of parents are secret and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one nor will they utter the other
Francis BaconMy only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas JeffersonMen are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon BonaparteThe first duty of man is to conquer fear, he must get rid of it he cannot act till then.
Thomas CarlyleMy friends whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals a man fears everything, but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
AeschylusIt is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Julius CaesarDivinity pervades all that you see hear and feel. Being in the constant company of such an all-pervasive divinity why should you worry and fear.
Sai BabaThe meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.
Richard BachI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas JeffersonOn every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack ObamaPeople react to fear not love, they don't teach that in Sunday School but it's true.
Richard M. NixonNever let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe RuthIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo MachiavelliSome men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Samuel ButlerFew women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.
Mitt RomneyInjustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
PlatoWhat each man feared would happen to himself did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
VirgilWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
David Herbert LawrenceWhen the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing more to fear from them then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.
PlatoIsn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. CioranThere is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources those who are poor illiterate and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson MandelaTo conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellDon't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway, we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl NightingaleI'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille BallTo give birth is a fearsome thing, there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
SophoclesWe promise in proportion to our hopes and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is the strange fate of man that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs 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.
Simone WeilCollective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand RussellWhy you may take the most gallant sailor the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears
Winston ChurchillIt is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
EpicurusThere is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell BoveeWhen you develop your power of discrimination and become fully awake to the indwelling divinity you will not suffer sorrow nor be subjected to fear.
Sai BabaMankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
MenciusMy hair is grey but not with years / Nor grew it white / In a single night / As men's have grown from sudden fears.
Lord ByronI do not shake or move If one devotes their entire time to me and rests in me need fear nothing for body and soul.
Sai BabaWe often pretend to fear what we really despise and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb ColtonProsperity is not without many fears and distastes, adversity not without many comforts and hopes
Francis BaconOnly the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhere there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of AssisiWhy are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry MillerThe terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid because freedom is on the march.
George W. BushLove knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.
Sai BabaWe're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.
Alanis MorissetteBeware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin DisraeliWe need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift also its greatest curse is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossWe promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMan seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots, but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon man has to take with him his fears his anxieties his prejudices and his pet aversions.
Sai BabaWhen a match has equal partners then I fear not.
AeschylusNothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis BaconOne should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.
Sai BabaProsperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis BaconThe fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. CioranHe ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John KeatsThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre GideWhere fear is happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLove is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
OvidWhere there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of AssisiThe fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sai BabaWhen desire dies fear is born.
Baltasar GracianWe gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor RooseveltTo him who is in fear everything rustles.
SophoclesEvery bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
Lady Gaga