Quotes About Fear

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

When security comes, every man for himself

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.