To be feared is much safer then to be loved. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized. - Sam Weiss
Some are afraid of being a mess, feared by the unknown and are horrified by an unplanned future; than, there is some of us who thrive through discovery , excited by unknown territories and intrigued by a future of mystery. How you tell these people apart; one is a thinker, thy other a feeler. - Nikki Rowe
Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it. - T.A. Uner
There was once a house built out of memories and inside this house lived a woman called The Memory Snatcher. This woman was my Aunt Beydan. She was a sorceress and as a child I feared she would stalk me in my sleep and steal all my memories until I could no longer remember who I was. - Diriye Osman
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. - Adam Smith
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
Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak. - Code of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body. - Seneca
Sometimes we could not bear the face of each other's differences because of what we feared it might say about ourselves. - Audre Lorde
I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, Man is the measure, and I went, and after many visits I found an opening. - E.M. Forster
He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn't want to be - a disappointment. - Sanhita Baruah
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true. - bell hooks
A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared. - Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered - Dan Davin
I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us..... - Miguel Angel Puma
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not. - Justin Lee
(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul. - Arthur Holitscher
One who is loved is greater than one who is feared. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood. - Marie Curie
It is better to be respected by few than to be feared by all - mng
There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of. - Annie Ali
And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light. - Garth von Buchholz
I've never feared the unexpected. - Kate Voegele
there is nothing to be feared except a result of our own actions - cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=
From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both. - Niccolò Machiavelli
When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength. - Hayley DiMarco
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted
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.
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. - Seneca
Success is like the most beautiful woman:pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few,courted by the patient and hardworking,and won over by good judgment. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled. - Deborah Brodie
A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared. - Matshona Dhliwayo
She made struggle look beautiful; so much, even darkness feared her light - Nikki Rowe
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them. - Baruch Spinoza
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. - Terence McKenna
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation. - Augustine of Hippo
In sailing, in weather, in life and death, answers are not endings and questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward. - Kaci Cronkhite