Fears Quotes

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Promise, Hopes, Deliver

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice Walker

Daily, Figure, Practical

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon

Parents, Secret, Joys

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Promise, Hopes, According

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

Change, Good, Heart

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

Enemy, Means, Discover

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

Fear, Danger, Advantage

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I

Nothing, Conscience, Innocent

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Isaac Asimov

Time, Universal, Disaster

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne

Shall, Suffer, Suffers

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon

Adversity, Prosperity, Hopes

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

Death, Dead, Stroke

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

Rather, Minds, Trouble

He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Hopes, Ill

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard

Life, Game, Football

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker

Mind, Understand, Worships

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats

Follow, Lead, Voices

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton

Himself, Within, Rules

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
Mason Cooley

Lies, Intensify

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France

Future, Nor, Events

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Die, Dead, Debt

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
Paul Ryan

Future, Emotional, Play

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Alfred Hitchcock

Best, Everything, Around

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
Ovid

Love, Full, Cares

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage, Brave, Desperate

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Life, Beauty, Great

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal

Love, Pleasures, Proportion

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Mencius

Evil, Heaven, Mankind

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Henry A. Wallace

Power, Thinking, Different

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