Fear Quotes

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

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

God helps those who fear Him.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I have a fear of being boring.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

I have built my organization upon fear.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.