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Quotes about Fear


The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.

Robert Wibbelsman

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Thomas Fuller

For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes that they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth, thou shalt catch men.

William Basse Bible

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Stevie Wonder

A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.

Philip R. Breeze

O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . . Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword Fallen Kosciusco.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Anatole France

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber Nichts in der Welt.]

Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king.

Francis Bible

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Francis Bible

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.

George Bernard Saadi

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

Alexander Virgil

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

John Adams

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet Detegere vultus.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.

William Shakespeare

Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about

Charles James Mohammad

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

William Wordsworth

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.

Diogenes Laertius

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