| Author |
Quotes |
| Alice Walker | I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. |
| Andrew Jackson | You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | Fear has many eyes. |
| Decimus Magnus Ausonius | It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. |
| Edmund Burke | Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. |
| Elizabeth I | If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. |
| G K Chesterton | Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others |
| Horatius Flaccus | I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. |
| J R R Tolkien | He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking. |
| James Anthony Froude | Fear is the parent of cruelty. |
| James Anthony Froude | There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. |
| James Anthony Froude | You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. |
| Joanna Baillie | The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. |
| Joanna Baillie | The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. |
| Caius Julius Caesar | In extreme danger fear feels no pity. |
| Leo Rosten | Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest. |
| Niccolo Machiavell | Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. |
| Philip R Breeze | Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. |
| Philip R Breeze | A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him. |
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