fear quotes

“Don't be afraid to see what you see.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“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.”

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

— John Calvin Maxwell

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”

— Amelia Earhart

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

— William Shakespeare

“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ”

“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good”

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

— Isaac Asimov

“...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.”

— Martin Luther King

“Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings 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.”

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ”

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ”

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

“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”

“No one loves the man whom he fears.”

“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”

“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”

— Robert Burns

“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.”

— Frank Herbert

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”

— Chet Atkins

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