Fear Quotes

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. (Aristotle)
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. View quote
Confucius
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. View quote
Publilius Syrus
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. View quote
Virgil
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. View quote
Aristotle
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
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. (Otto von Bismarck)
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. View quote
John Steinbeck
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. View quote
Mark Twain
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
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. (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
Fear is just another word for ignorance. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. View quote
Florence Nightingale
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