Fear Sayings & Quotes
These fear sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. - Lord Chesterfield
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. - Thomas J. Watson
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost
He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. - Eric Rucker Eddison
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy. - Denis Waitley
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. - Mary McCarthy
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. - Lao-Tzu
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer, because smaller things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of suffering. - Thomas Merton
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. - Stanley Kubrick
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. - Mary Catherine Bateson
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it. - Sir Noel Coward
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali