Fear Roosevelt Quotes

#1. The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well ... uh ... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Jeffrey Sachs

#4. Teddy Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor, and when Teddy Roosevelt tells you to do something, you goddamn do it or risk having him punch you in the butt so hard your poop stays inside you forever out of fear of possibly running into Roosevelt.

Daniel O'Brien

#5. Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

#8. The only thing we have to fear ... is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#9. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. Every day do something that frightens you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#11. The corporation that shrinks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#14. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#15. Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.

Henry Kissinger

#16. There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#18. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Aleatha Romig

#19. You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#20. A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Mary Schmich

#21. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#22. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#23. There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#24. I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

#25. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt

#26. Freedom of speech ... Freedom of worship ... Freedom from want ... Freedom from fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#27. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#28. We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#29. There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Theodore Roosevelt

#30. There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#31. A great deal of fear is a result of just "not knowing." We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#32. When men fear work or fear righteous war, when women fear motherhood, they tremble on the brink of doom; and well it is that they should vanish from the earth, where they are fit subjects for the scorn of all men and women who are themselves strong and brave and high-minded.

Theodore Roosevelt

#33. Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Russell Baker

#34. Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.

Theodore Roosevelt

#35. Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we face it alone.

Dean Koontz

#36. In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear.

Robert Dallek

#37. Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Eleanor Roosevelt

#38. There is honing to fear, bu fear itself/

Theodore Roosevelt

#39. You control an unruly dog with a chain ... or a cage. Never underestimate fear" - Heinrich gestured angrily at Roosevelt - "or the men who would capitalize on it to get what they want." "You are such a pessimist. This is America. Nothing like that could ever happen here.

Larry Correia

#40. Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

Theodore Roosevelt

#41. We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#42. This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

Theodore Roosevelt