959 private quotes tagged fear

“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.” — George Orwell

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“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.” — Aeschylus

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“Those who own much have much to fear.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“The thing I fear most is fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.” — Mason Cooley

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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke

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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” — Albert Einstein

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“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.” — Plutarch

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“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.” — Sophocles

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“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.” — Lord Byron

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“Only the contemptible fear contempt.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” — Bertrand Russell

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“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Where fear is, happiness is not.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.” — H. L. Mencken

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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” — Thomas Paine

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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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