Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. – Benjamin Disraeli
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Isoroku Yamamoto
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. – Xun Zi
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. – Jesse Jackson
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. – Benjamin Disraeli
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave. – Matthew Henry
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only the contemptible fear contempt. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fear is exciting for me. – Ayrton Senna
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. – Douglas MacArthur
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. – Julius Caesar
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. – William Jennings Bryan
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. – H. P. Lovecraft
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. – John Calvin
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. – Martha Beck
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. – Abraham Maslow
