Fear Quotes

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

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin

Fear is faith that it won’t work out.
Sister Mary Tricky

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin Luther

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson

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

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

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron

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

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks

I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi

Those who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath Tagore

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
Andrew Jackson

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
Jack Kevorkian

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth

Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming

Let us banish fear.
Carter G. Woodson

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. Glasow

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne

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

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh

We fear the thing we want the most.
Robert Anthony

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
Saadi

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Virgil

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus