Quotes About Fear

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

Never laugh at live dragons.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Fear exists because we do not have faith.