GREAT QUOTES ON FEAR

GREAT QUOTES ON

FEAR

FEAR is the most common emotion in all living beings – not merely Humans.

Fear propels us into actions which we can never even  think of  ordinarily, but fear can also restrain and paralyze us, from actions which we routinely perform.

Fear can either make us forget the simplest of things or remember the most obscure of things, lost from our memory.

Fear can sap our courage totally or raise it to phenomenal levels. It is an extraordinary emotion.

I have listed some beautiful quotes by Great spiritualists in my blog - www.wisespiritualideas.blogspot.com.

Readers can kindly look at those beautiful quotes also – to get a more wholesome idea of what great Intellectuals think of the emotion of Fear.

In this Blog, I am listing other beautiful quotes on Fear. It is a continuation of the earlier Blog Posts on fear, its causes, types, preventive measures and so on. In future posts – we will see some interesting methods of dealing with Fear. The key words / phrases are on Bold + Italics , for your convenience and better understanding

QUOTES ON FEAR

Ø  The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.    -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ø  Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.   -Francis Bacon

Ø  There would be no one to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.   -Mohandas K. Gandhi

Ø  Fear always springs from ignorance.   -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ø  Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth-- more than ruin, more even than death.   -Bertrand Russell 

Ø  To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.   -Sir Francis Bacon 

Ø  A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.    -Sir Walter Scott 

Ø  Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.   -Thomas Jefferson

Ø  To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.  -Bertrand Russell

Ø  Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.   -Marie Curie

Ø  The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.    -Thomas Jefferson

Ø  For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. But men fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils.  -Socrates

Ø  The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.     -James Branch Cabell

Ø  He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ø  He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ø  The thing we fear we bring to pass.  - Elbert Hubbard

Ø  Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.-   Kahlil Gibran

Ø  The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Ø  The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.   -    Albert Einstein

Ø  We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells us that that is true also of our fellows and of the higher animals. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.   - Albert Einstein

Ø  In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.  - Kahlil Gibran

Ø  Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.  - Elbert Hubbard

Ø  And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.  - T.S. Eliot

Ø  Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke

Ø  It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. -  Abraham Lincoln

Ø  Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Ø  Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

Ø  Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ø  Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?  - Jane Austen

Ø  The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  - Elbert Hubbard

Ø  We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ø  If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. - Jimmy Carter

Ø  If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.  - George Bernard Shaw

Ø  Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.  - Lao Tzu

Ø  If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.  - Sun Tzu

Ø  Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. - St. Francis of Assisi

Ø  I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. - Thomas Jefferson

Ø  Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.  - Leonardo da Vinci 

Ø  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life. – Bertrand Russell

Ø  Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.  – William Shakespeare

Ø  Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. - Ernest Hemingway

Ø  The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. – Buddha

Ø  We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.  - Harry S Truman

Ø  I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.  - Thomas Jefferson

Ø  Do you want to know what fear is? Is it not the non-acceptance of what is? – Jiddu Krishnamurthi

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