959 private quotes tagged fear

“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” — André Gide

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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.” — Aeschylus

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“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.” — Francis Bacon

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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 person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” — H. L. Mencken

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“If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.” — Tori Amos

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“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.” — Julius Caesar

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“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.” — Martin Luther

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“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.” — Voltaire

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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.” — Winston Churchill

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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” — T. S. Eliot

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“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” — Bill Gates

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

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“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.” — Ryan White

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“I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.” — Arsenio Hall

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“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.” — LL Cool J

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