Fear Quotes

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Judge, Afraid

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

Future, Past, Enjoy

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Pain, Feelings, Else

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Love, Strength, Business

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks

Mind, Done, Learned

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Away, Learn, Rather

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya

Men, Future, Past

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

Love, Learned, Here

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Greatest, Him, Strange

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles Stanley

Failure, Confidence, Lost

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle

Cannot, Act, Conquer

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Person, Hand, Danger

True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True, Nobility, Exempt

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Humanity, Makes

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

Defeat, Worse, Victories

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler

Hearing, Static, Prevents

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu

Reading, Known, Hour

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Once, Against, Action

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

Adversity, Prosperity, Hopes

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

Passion, Contagious

He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Hopes, Ill

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

Future, Nor, Events

To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton

Often, Pretend, Despise

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Ignorance, Proportion

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