Fear Quotes - page 2

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. (Epictetus)
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear. View quote
Epicurus
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. View quote
Livy
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. View quote
Aristotle
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. View quote
Nelson Mandela
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. View quote
Alexander Pope
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (John Steinbeck)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. View quote
Mark Twain
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. View quote
Harry S. Truman
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I'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. View quote
George Eliot
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. View quote
Jim Morrison
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. View quote
Stendhal
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. (Oprah Winfrey)
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. View quote
Frank Herbert
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. View quote
Joseph Conrad
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