959 private quotes tagged fear

“There are many victories worse than a defeat.” — George Eliot

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“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” — Samuel Butler

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“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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“While there's life, there's fear.” — Mason Cooley

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“Excessive fear is always powerless.” — Aeschylus

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

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

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

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“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.” — Warren Buffett

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“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” — Corrie Ten Boom

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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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“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.” — Charles Rangel

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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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