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 | Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 21 likes |
 | Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 18 likes |
 | F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 16 likes |
 | The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 16 likes |
 | I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 13 likes |
 | You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 13 likes |
 | Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 13 likes |
 | The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 12 likes |
 | Our greatest fears lie in anticipation. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 12 likes |
 | Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 10 likes |
 | The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 10 likes |
 | Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 9 likes |
 | Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 9 likes |
| He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 9 likes |
 | Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 9 likes |
 | One should be afraid of life, not of death. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 9 likes |
 | Religion is a byproduct of fear. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 8 likes |
 | He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 8 likes |
 | You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 8 likes |
 | I will show you fear in a handful of dust. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 7 likes |
 | You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 6 likes |
 | Perhaps we should wish to be both feared and loved: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose, it is far safer to be feared than loved. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 6 likes |
 | Prudence is a euphemism for fear. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 6 likes |
 | The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 6 likes |
| An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 5 likes |
 | Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry IV 5 likes |
 | I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 5 likes |
 | Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 5 likes |
| The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 4 likes |
 | Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 4 likes |
 | Fear fades when facts are faced. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 4 likes |
 | The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 4 likes |
 | Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 4 likes |
| Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-- what do you get? The sum of their fears. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn’t help anything. You better try and figure out what’s happening and correct it. — Chuck Yeager, 1923-2020, American pioneer pilot 4 likes |
 | The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 3 likes |
 | We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 3 likes |
 | Fear and hope share life; pleasure and pain occupy only moments. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 3 likes |
 | He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 3 likes |
| I believe there is no devil but fear. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 3 likes |
 | In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
| In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 2 likes |
 | He that fears you present will hate you absent. — Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker 2 likes |
| The thing I fear most is fear. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 2 likes |
| Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 2 likes |
 | Never start a job, a battle, or a relationship, if the fear of losing overshadows the prospect of success. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 2 likes |
 | We promise according to our hopes; we fulfil according to our fears. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 2 likes |
 | An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 2 likes |
 | We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 2 likes |
 | There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 2 likes |
 | Until now we were afraid; from now on we will hope. — Victor Frankl, 1905-1997, Austrian neurologist (to his wife when he was arrested by the Nazis) 2 likes |
 | Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 2 likes |
 | Fear is incomplete knowledge. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 1 likes |
 | All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the intelligence of the few. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 1 likes |
 | Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. |
 | The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. |
| Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all. |
 | Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous. |
 | For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility 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. |
 | Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. |
 | If you can look at the fear straight in the eye, the fear will be scared and will go away. |
| I hope for nothing. I am afraid of nothing. I am free. — Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer (inscription on his grave) |
 | Fear is in the imagination, cowardice in character. |
| All passions love what feeds them. Fear loves the idea of danger. |
| Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. |
 | Morality is what is left of fear when you forget it. |
 | Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. |
| Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. |
 | Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. |
 | Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be. |
 | Be scared. You can't help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. |
 | If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. |
 | The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center. |
 | Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life. |
 | To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. |
| Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
 | A fearful man is always hearing things. |
 | I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. |
| Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. |
| I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.... |
 | Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. |
 | The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. |
 | If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. |
| Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away. |
| Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. |
| Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new. |
 | Nobody likes a clown at midnight. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction |
 | The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. |
 | Face your fears or they will climb over your back. |
 | Where there is no imagination, there is no horror. |
 | Man has only one real evil: the fear of death. Deliver him from this fear and you will set him free. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
 | Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. |
| Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. |
Latin Quotes
 | Let them hate, as long as they fear. Oderint, dum metuant. — Caligula, 12-41 AD, Roman Emperor (originally a verse by the poet Accius) 170 likes |
 | The cause of fear is ignorance. Timendi causa est nescire. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 83 likes |
 | Hannibal at the gates. Hannibal ad portas. (Roman alert when Hannibal was approaching to Rome, around 217 BC) 34 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I'm afraid of widths. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Kids are afraid of thunders and idiots are afraid of threats. Αι μεν βρονταί τους παίδας, αι δε απειλαί τους άφρονας καταπλήττουσι. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 24 likes |
 | No one likes one whom he fears. Ουδείς γαρ ον φοβείται φιλεί. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | Fear uses flattery without getting any favors. Φόβος κολακείην μεν εργάζεται, εύνοιαν δε ουκ έχει. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Sometimes fear is a good thing. Έσθ’ όπου το δεινόν εύ. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Eumenides 5 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I haven't been afraid since I've known you. — from the film Gaslight (1944) 7 likes |
 | Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. — from the film Star Wars-The Phantom Menace (1999) 2 likes |
