Quotes
Quotes about Fear
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who fears noises.
He that fears you present will hate you absent.
Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse expetit.]
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.
Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks; He comes--I see his glaring eyes: Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain,--I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and 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; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
