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Quotes about Fear


Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe Absterrent vitiis.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Thee anger, in which a person can hold, Only shows the true fear with in!

Brittany Godin

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

J. G. Ballard

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Fyodor Dostoevski

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -Helen Keller.

Helen Keller

He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.

John Bunyan

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. Cowman To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. •James Allen All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. •Jean-Paul Sartre No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. •Amar Gopal Bose He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. •Joseph Heller Failure is the tuition you pay for success. •Walter Brunell Success is never final, but failure can be. •Bill Parcells Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. •George Washington Carver I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. •Michael Jordan Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. •Confucius The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. •Francis Picabia You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. •Walt Disney Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. •Rosalind Russell My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. •Abraham Lincoln Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. •George R. Tilton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. •George S. Patton There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. •Barbara Ward Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. •German Proverb A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. •J. Paul Getty Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. •Tony Richardson Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. •Louis Boone Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. •Jim Rohn There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. •Laurence J. Peter If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. •Robert H. Schuller Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. •Truman Capote There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. •Sri Swami Sivananda Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. •Joe Paterno Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. •Robert Louis Stevenson Failures are like skinned knees— painful, but superficial. •H. Ross Perot I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure— which is try to please everybody. •Herbert B. Swope Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. •Zig Ziglar A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Hosea Bible

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.

General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.

Charles Churchill

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Sir John Denham

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Charles Frohman

Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.

William Saint

Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

King David

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Marcus Valerius Martial

If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice Appears under your feet. You slip out of your depth and out of your mind With your fear flowing out behind you As you claw the thin ice.

Pink Floyd

How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

Pink Floyd

No one loves the man whom he fears.

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Joanna Baillie

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Joanna Baillie

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