Fear Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Fear

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In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
~By Chin-Ning Chu ~


I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~


My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
~By Melanie Klein ~


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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~


Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~


Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
~By Dan Gable ~


For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
~By John Frusciante ~


I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
~By Virgil ~


Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
~By Barbara Deming ~


Fear is the foundation of most governments.
~By John Adams ~


Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
~By Louis Aragon ~


Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
~By Paulo Coelho ~


Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
~By Mencius ~


Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
~By Juan Williams ~


When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.
~By Jimmy Rushing ~


Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
~By Sun Tzu ~


If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
~By James A. Michener ~


Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
~By Jack Lemmon ~


It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
~By Owen D. Young ~


The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
~By Thomas Kuhn ~


If there is anything I really fear it is the mind of a young girl.
~By Jane Heap ~


The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~


I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~


Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
~By Andrew von Eschenbach ~


It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~


All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.
~By Tony Shalhoub ~


By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
~By Edward Walker ~


Fate loves the fearless.
~By James Russell Lowell ~


First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~


If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
~By Susan Sarandon ~


Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
~By George Sewell ~


Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
~By Stanislav Grof ~


The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
~By Francis Bacon ~


I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~


Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
~By Peter McWilliams ~


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.
~By Donald Cargill ~


Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
~By Dale Carnegie ~


Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
~By Robert Crumb ~


That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
~By Steve Irwin ~


My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
~By Lee Grant ~


Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
~By Sam Shepard ~


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.
~By George Orwell ~


In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~


To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
~By Adam Arkin ~


This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~


Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
~By Gillian Anderson ~


Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
~By Robert Jarvik ~


Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
~By Jonah Goldberg ~


Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
~By Virgil ~


The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
~By J. William Fulbright ~


I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
~By Alice Walker ~


Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.
~By Todd McFarlane ~


No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
~By Bob Riley ~


The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
~By Kathleen Blanco ~


Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
~By Henry Miller ~


The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~


True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
~By Paul Sweeney ~


Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~


My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
~By Aeschylus ~


There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~


Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
~By Yunus Emre ~


The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~


There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~


I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
~By Carly Simon ~


In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.
~By Sharon Gless ~


If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
~By Stevie Nicks ~


Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
~By Andrew Cohen ~


Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~


Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~


Those who own much have much to fear.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~


Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
~By Bertrand Russell ~


Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
~By Diane Abbott ~


There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
~By Preston Manning ~


If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~By Dale Carnegie ~


It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
~By Jodie Foster ~


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~


People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
~By Norman Cousins ~


We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
~By Charles Evers ~


Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~


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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~


We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~


The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~


Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
~By Natan Sharansky ~


Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
~By Bram Stoker ~


There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
~By Aeschylus ~


I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
~By Jim McDermott ~


He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
~By Matthew Henry ~


I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
~By Garry Shandling ~


There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~


The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
~By Charles Sturt ~


I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
~By Peter Mandelson ~


I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
~By David Brainerd ~


Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
~By Richard Bach ~


I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~


I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
~By Peter Straub ~


No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~By C. S. Lewis ~


With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~


I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~


I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
~By Abraham Crowley ~


It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~

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