Fear
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
- Petronius
- Petronius
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fear is excitement without breath.
- Heller, Robert
- Heller, Robert
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- Susan Jeffers
- Susan Jeffers
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
- Lowell, James Russell
- Lowell, James Russell
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Niccolo Machiavelli
He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!
- Upanishads, Veda
- Upanishads, Veda
Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
- Bible
- Bible
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
- Hill, Napoleon
- Hill, Napoleon
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
- Fuller, Thomas
- Fuller, Thomas
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
- Hersey, John
- Hersey, John
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.
- Patton, George S.
- Patton, George S.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
- Churchill, Winston
- Churchill, Winston
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. "What is your religion my son?" inquired the Archbishop of Rheims. "Pardon, monseigneur," replied Rochebriant; "I am ashamed of it." "Then why do you not become an atheist?" "Impossible! I should be ashamed of atheism." "In that case, monsieur, you should join the Protestants."
- Ambrose Bierce
- Ambrose Bierce
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
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Earhart, Amelia
- Earhart, Amelia


















