Fear Quotes

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Mary Manin Morrissey

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide

Obstacles 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 Marden

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Dorothy Thompson

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

You 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 Shaw

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel Osteen

It 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 Goethe

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We 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 Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham Maslow