Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
~By Plato ~
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
My only fear is the unknown.
~By David Blaine ~
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
~By Rickie Lee Jones ~
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
~By William Gurnall ~
There's no fear when you're having fun.
~By Will Thomas ~
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
~By Billy Corgan ~
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
~By Arthur Wellesley ~
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
~By William McFee ~
The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
~By Edward Albert ~
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The American people fear there is some gouging going on.
~By Richard Shelby ~
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
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.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
~By George S. Patton ~
Never take counsel of your fears.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
~By William Congreve ~
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
~By Herodotus ~
Great fear is concealed under daring.
~By Lucan ~
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
I have a fear of being boring.
~By Christian Bale ~
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
~By Bell Hooks ~
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
~By Preston Manning ~
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
~By Ovid ~
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~By Plato ~
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
~By William Hazlitt ~
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.
~By Meir Kahane ~
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
~By Sidney Hook ~
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
~By Robert Mugabe ~
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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.
~By Charles Evers ~
War is fear cloaked in courage.
~By William Westmoreland ~
The thing I fear most is fear.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
~By Max Baer ~
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
~By Jodie Foster ~
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
~By Don DeLillo ~
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
~By Matthew Henry ~
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
~By Bernard Law Montgomery ~
I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
~By Beth Orton ~
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
~By John Dryden ~
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.
~By George Eliot ~
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
~By Mark Twain ~
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
~By Robertson Davies ~
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
~By Halle Berry ~
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
~By Mary Lou Williams ~
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
~By Hugh Grant ~
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
~By Sun Tzu ~
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
~By Homer ~
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
~By John Paul Stevens ~
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
~By Marion Milner ~
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
~By Haley Joel Osment ~
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
~By Vincent McNabb ~
I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.
~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
~By Ed Harris ~
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
~By Johnny Depp ~
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
When desire dies, fear is born.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
~By Colin Baker ~
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
~By Bobby Bowden ~
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
~By Confucius ~
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
~By Merle Shain ~
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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