Fate loves the fearless
James Russell LowellPuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Henry L MenckenThe surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
John RandolphI suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John MortimerYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric HofferCourage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
David Ben-GurionYou gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor RooseveltI hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.
Jack HandyWhatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
VirgilMy biggest fear is dying.
John PeelThe competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry FordMy worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man
Ashley ColeAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerThe more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
AristotleI think really all of us have had our fears and doubts but we feel that the time is right. [On reforming]
Melanie ChisholmThe wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean De La BruyereI have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
Bell HooksLove takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James BaldwinAs you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Christina Of SwedenGun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
Diane AbbottCourage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur KoestlerHave no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador DaliAn oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
ConfuciusFear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving
MontaigneI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. 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.
Simone De BeauvoirThe absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Samuel DanielOver the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Matt BluntCourage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
Edward AlbertUnpinned even by rudimentary notions of time and space, dreams float or flash by, leaving in their wake trails of unease, hopes and fears.
Stephen BrookIf an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D RooseveltFear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Francis QuarlesFear 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.
Umberto EcoHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik EriksonA humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
Ramsey ClarkPeople with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthyFear of destruction and imminent danger are those that will ultimately drive us forward onto survival in the future.
William FloydLove, hope, fear, faith: these make humanity; These are its' sign and note and character.
Robert Browning HamiltonNothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
Neale WalschDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand RussellAlas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas CarlyleAnd the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Honore De BalzacFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Benedict SpinozaHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear
Florence NightingaleKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis StevensonThe greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran ErikssonIt's time to give the yobs a dose of the fear they have been dishing out to the rest of us.
Michael HowardConsult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIIIHow often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies.
Henry Melville
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