Feared Quotes

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  • It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

    — Niccolo Machiavelli
    162
  • I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.

    — Michael Jordan
    150
  • If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

    — Niccolo Machiavelli
    45
  • Don't you see that the lion is silent and yet feared, while the dog barks constantly and is despised?

    — Imam Shafi'i
    44
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  • She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

    — John Dryden
    21
  • It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

    — Niccolo Machiavelli
    13
  • Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

    — Harper Lee
    13
  • It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

    — Susan Sontag
    9
  • The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

    — Guy Finley
    9
  • Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

    — Doug Horton
    8
  • I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

    — Thomas Jefferson
    6
  • Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

    — Henry David Thoreau
    4
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  • An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

    — Confucius
    4
  • Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

    Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

    — Christian Nevell Bovee
    3
  • Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

    — Marcus Tullius Cicero
    2
  • Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

    — David Ben-Gurion
    2
  • Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

    Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

    — Marie Curie
    1
  • Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

    — Adam Smith
    1
  • The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

    — Adrienne Rich
    1
  • Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

    — Louis D. Brandeis
    1
  • Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

    — Niccolo Machiavelli
    1
  • There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'

    — Edward Lear
    0
  • America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

    — Edna Ferber
    0
  • I have used these weeks to revalue values.

    Do you understand this expression? When you come right down to it, the alchemist is the most praiseworthy of men: I mean the one who changes something negligible or contemptible into something of value, even gold. He alone enriches, the others merely exchange. My task is quite singular this time: I have asked myself what mankind has always hated, feared, and despised the most

    — Friedrich Nietzsche
    0
  • Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

    — David BenGurion
    0
  • In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

    — Owen D. Young
    0
  • Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared;

    but only men of character are trusted.

    — Unknown
    0
  • We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

    — George Orwell
    0
  • One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down

    — Norman Augustine
    0
  • He would have liked his own funeral if he could have seen it.

    It was small and quiet, and really not at all pompous, as Michael had feared it might be. 'The dead,' he had said once, 'need nothing from the living, and the living can give nothing to the dead.' At 22, it had sounded precocious; at 34, it sounded mature, and this pleased Michael very much. Essentially a romantic, he had put away the trappings of romance, although he had loved them deeply and never known.

    — Peter S. Beagle
    0
  • Where would we be if throughout history, our greatest minds had feared that which they could not confirm? Embrace the unknown with caution, but not with fear.

    — Karyn Somerfield
    0
  • Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

    — Jean Genet
    0
  • Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

    — St. Francis De Sales
    0
  • An anthill increases by accumulation.

    Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

    — Siddha Nagarjuna
    0
  • An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast;

    a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

    — Buddha
    0
  • Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

    — Soren Kierkegaard
    0
  • Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

    — Napoleon
    0
  • It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

    — Gore Vidal
    0
  • We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

    We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

    — Edward R. Murrow
    0
  • I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.

    — Alexis de Tocqueville
    0
  • We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

    — Joan Didion
    0
  • Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

    — William Jennings Bryan
    0
  • I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

    — Armistead Maupin
    0
  • The first light of day today revealed what we had feared.

    The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

    — Kathleen Blanco
    0
  • Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

    — Ray Nagin
    0
  • My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long.

    I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

    — Armistead Maupin
    0
  • The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

    — Bertrand Russell
    0
  • I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

    — Nadine Labaki
    0
  • The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

    — Lyndon B. Johnson
    0
  • Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

    — David Ben-Gurion
    0

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