Fear Quotes
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
Barack Obama— "The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Untied Kingdom in London, England," April 1, 2009. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
nelson mandela— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.
bruce lee
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— Quiet Strength: the Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
pliny the elder— Book VIII, sec. 148.
I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
vandana shiva— As quoted in, "In the Footsteps of Gandhi: An Interview with Vandana Shiva" by Scott London.
If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear.
j. m. barrie— Peter Pan (1904, pg. 98)
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
— 1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.
You need have no fear of any failure.
Percy Harrison Fawcett— Last words written to his wife (1925). Collected in Exploration Fawcett.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
bruce lee— Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living, Part VIII: On Ultimate (Final) Principles, p. 121 (2000).
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
langston hughes— "Democracy"
When by these steps he has got resolution enough not to be deterr'd from what he ought to do, by the apprehension of danger; when fear does not, in sudden or hazardous occurrences, decompose his mind, set his body a-trembling, and make him unfit for action, or run away from it, he has then the courage of a rational creature: and such an hardiness we should endeavour by custom and use to bring children to, as proper occasions come in our way.
john locke— Sec. 115 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night V, line 441.
What is history , after all, but the record of the periodical crusades for or against some bogey which believing men have evolved out of their credulity and fear ?
— Ernest Boyd in: Raymond Woodbury Pence Essays of Today, Macmillan, 1935, p.94
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge. Wisdom and discipline are what mere fools have despised.
— Solomon, Proverbs 1:7 ; New World Translation
Those fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations. It was a regurgitation, a psycho-artistic vomit - a creative, cathartic cleansing of my inner being.
ralph steadman— The America's Cup, p. 63
Cultured people practise self-examination with trepidation and fear.
I Ching— c.2000 BC I Ching, no.51 (translated by Thomas Cleary).
With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.
james inhofe— "The Science of Climate Change", Senate floor speech (2003-07-28), quoted in Chris Mooney (2006-08-29). The Republican War on Science. Basic Books. p. 84. ISBN 9780465046751.
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, — and all it wants, — is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock and man began to contemplate redress.
thomas paine— Part 2.2 Introduction
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
rabindranath tagore— 28
To the mouse, snow means freedom from want and fear. ... To a rough-legged hawk, a thaw means freedom from want and fear.
aldo leopold— “January: January Thaw”, p. 4
It is good to be a cynic it is better to be a contented cat and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
h. p. lovecraft— "Nietzscheism and Realism" from The Rainbow, Vol. I, No. 1 (October 1921); reprinted in "To Quebec and the Stars", and also in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 71
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
rabindranath tagore— Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, 28.
Many people together won't fear a tiger, and many dogs together won't fear a wolf.
— As quoted in John S. Rohsenow, ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs, (2003)
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
— Book XXVII, sec. 44 (History of Rome)
Alike were they free from fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics. Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows; But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners; There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Part I, section 1
