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QUOTES including the word: "fear"

Kazantzakis:
  • I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

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

    • Robert Burns:
  • Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

    • Victor Jara:
  • Song, how hard it is sing you when I have to sing in fear!

    • Galaktion Tabidze:
  • Glory to those with souls devoid of fear, Who for the people's cause did bravely die…

    • Seneca:
  • Where fear is, happiness is not.

    • Jim Morrison:
  • Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

    • Salvador Dali:
  • Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

    • Machiavelli:
  • If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”

    • Percy Shelley:
  • Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

    • Mary Shelley:
  • Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

    • Arthur Koestler:
  • Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

    • Gwendoline Konie:
  • For I will not let fear swallow My breath, my dreams, and my hopes! My hidden courage will saw off your fist.

    • Sarojini Naidu:
  • Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”

    • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

    • Hobbes:
  • No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

    • Ted Hughes:
  • The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

    • Brendan Behan:
  • Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

    • Montesquieu:
  • There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

    • Machiavelli:
  • “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”

    • Montaigne:
  • He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

    • Giordano Bruno:
  • It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

    • Carlos Fuentes:
  • Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

    • Epicurus:
  • The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
    It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

    • A. Edgar Poe,:
  • Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

    • Jackson Pollock:
  • When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

    • Mark Twain:
  • The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

    • Stendhal:
  • I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

    • Marie Curie:
  • Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

    • Machiavelli:
  • It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

    • Rochefoucauld:
  • We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

    • Lucian:
  • Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.

    • Jules Verne:
  • If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

    • Joseph Conrad:
  • Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

    • Ionesco:
  • No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

    • Remarque:
  • I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

    • Kunanbaev:
  • He who shouts in his anger is harmless. Fear the one who is silently angry.

    • Caesar:
  • It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

    • Guru Nanak:
  • There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.

    • Spinoza:
  • There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

    • Jalaluddin Rumi:
  • Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

    • Jules Verne:
  • I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

    • Hobbes:
  • There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

    • Napoleon:
  • There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

    • Jose Rizal:
  • “The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

    • Percy Shelley:
  • Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

    • Giordano Bruno:
  • I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

    • Upton Sinclair:
  • The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

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

    • Democritus:
  • Choose to be loved rather than feared. He who is feared by all, he fears all.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

    • Nelson Mandela:
  • The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers his fear.

    • Pythagoras:
  • Man is mortal with his fears, and immortal with his wishes.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

    • Jack London:
  • Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • It is not death that a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live.

    • Luther:
  • I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    • William James:
  • To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,

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