Fear Quotes

"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."

Indra Devi, Latvian Celebrity

Fear, Freedom, Loneliness, Practice

8

"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, German Poet

Fear, Fate, Man

7

"I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

Fear, Cause, Christ, Living

7

"Fear is exciting for me."

Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Celebrity

Fear,

6

"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."

Timothy Findley, Canadian Novelist

Fear, Painting

5

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Athlete

Fear, Challenge, Feet

5

"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

Fear, Knowledge, Will, Saudiarabian

5

"Hope and fear cannot alter the season."

Chogyam Trungpa, Tibetan Philosopher

Fear, Hope

5

"A 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 Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

Fear, Man, Sense

4

"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."

Marcus Valerius Martial, Spanish Poet

Fear, Content, Day, Nothing

4

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Fear, Anticipation, Evil, Pain

4

"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."

Bashar al-Assad, Syrian Statesman

Fear, Worry

4

"How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear."

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Lawyer

Fear, Hunger, Instinct

4

"Americans have discovered fear."

Jose Saramago, Portuguese Writer

Fear, Americans

4

"Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives."

Ivo Andric, Bosnian Writer

Fear, Hope, Space

4

"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."

Pliny the Elder, Roman Author

Fear, Grief, Limits, May

4

"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear."

King Hussein, Jordanian Royalty

Fear, Glory, Mistakes, Past

4

"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian Politician

Fear, Hope, Country, Desire

3

"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

Fear, Authority, Crime, Glory

3

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared."

David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman

Fear, Knowledge, Courage

2

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."

William Jennings Bryan, American Lawyer

Fear, Successful, Self

2

"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

Ron Chernow, American Author

Fear, Baby, Retirement, Will

2

"I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

Fear, Destruction, Name

2

"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."

Edward Blake, Canadian Politician

Fear, Beginning, Carnival, Crime

2

"Great fear is concealed under daring."

Lucan, Roman Poet

Fear,

1

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Fear, Hope

1

"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."

Roger Caras, American Activist

Fear, Pain, Rest

1

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Fear, World

1

"The mark of fear is not easily removed."

Ernest Gaines, American Writer

Fear,

1

"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."

Francis Quarles, English Poet

Fear, Danger

1

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

Mary Lyon, American Educator

Fear, Duty, Nothing, Universe

1

"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Fear, Midnight, Will

1

"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, Indian Leader

Fear, Existence, Help, Will

1

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear."

Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer

Fear,

1

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."

Miles Davis, American Musician

Fear, Mistakes

1

"Why 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 Miller, American Author

Fear, Hope, Losing, Restraint

"You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself."

Francesca Annis, English Actress

Fear,

"This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part."

Bernhard von Bulow, German Statesman

Fear, Duty, Effort, Fact

"We fear the thing we want the most."

Robert Anthony, American Educator

Fear, Want

"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fear, Action

"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."

Vannevar Bush, American Scientist

Fear, Reason

"I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself."

Beth Orton, English Musician

Fear,

"How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?"

Joel Barlow, American Poet

Fear, Mankind

"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

Fear, Present, Research

"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."

Jerome Cady, American Screenwriter

Fear, Cowardice, Nothing

"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

Fear, Journey

"If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?"

Stevie Nicks, American Musician

Fear, Performance, Key

"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

Fear, Belief

"We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it."

Charles Evers, American Activist

Fear, Want

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Fear, Act, Influence, Man

"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."

8

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

7

"I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause."

7

"Fear is exciting for me."

6

"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."

5

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

5

"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."

5

"Hope and fear cannot alter the season."

5

"A 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."

4

"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."

4

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

4

"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."

4

"How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear."

4

"Americans have discovered fear."

4

"Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives."

4

"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."

4

"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear."

4

"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."

3

"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."

3

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared."

2

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."

2

"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

2

"I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale."

2

"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."

2

"Great fear is concealed under daring."

1

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

1

"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."

1

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."

1

"The mark of fear is not easily removed."

1

"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."

1

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

1

"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."

1

"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."

1

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear."

1

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."

1

"Why 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."

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"You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself."

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"This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part."

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"We fear the thing we want the most."

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"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."