The Only Fear Is Fear Itself Quotes

#1. The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

Leon Brown

#2. Peace is not the absence of war - peace is the absence of fear.

Ursula Franklin

#3. But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.

Claire Legrand

#4. Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

Lucius Accius

#5. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.

Jacqueline Koyanagi

#6. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Anthony De Mello

#7. Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.

Vaddey Ratner

#8. Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Thucydides

#9. Thus a man will sometimes suffer half an hour of mortal fear with a robber, but once the knife is finally at his throat, even fear vanishes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

T. Harv Eker

#11. The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it.

Avril Lavigne

#12. Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Epicurus

#13. Only those who live in the wilderness can recognize the central truth of existence, which is that death lives right beside us at all times, as close and as relevant as life itself, and that this reality is nothing to fear but is a sacred truth to be praised.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Love is Letting go of fear
Love itself Remains constant
only the particular body from whom we sometimes expect it may change

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#15. Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,

Michael Grant

#17. From our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Bernard Beckett

#18. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself.

China Mieville

#19. Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

William Manchester

#20. The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

Dean Cavanagh

#21. The only reality is "anxiety" in the whole chain of beings. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man "in whom existence is concentrated.

Albert Camus