Fear Quotes

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Fear is the mother of morality.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame).

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

But what is it that constrains the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases.

Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them.

Some regard their ideal with shy humility and would like to deny it: they fear their higher self because, when it speaks, it speaks demandingly.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.