Quotes About Fear

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power this is because they fear what you might become.

Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Maria didn't fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

The more I love nature the least I'm afraid to die. I wouldn't mind being a part of the trees and the place that makes everything possible.

I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away.

Man will destroy what man fears!

It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.