The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
~By Jewel ~
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
~By Peter Straub ~
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
~By Helen Keller ~
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
~By Stendhal ~
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.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.
~By John Boehner ~
I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.
~By Bob Odenkirk ~
The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.
~By David Cronenberg ~
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
~By Haley Joel Osment ~
I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.
~By John Abercrombie ~
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
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 ~
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
~By Alvin Adams ~
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
~By Oliver Hudson ~
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
~By Manuel Puig ~
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
People living deeply have no fear of death.
~By Anais Nin ~
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
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.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
~By Eliot Engel ~
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
~By Huey Newton ~
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
~By Liza Minelli ~
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
~By Alice Walker ~
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
~By John Paul Stevens ~
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
My only fear is the unknown.
~By David Blaine ~
That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
~By Jamal Lewis ~
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
~By Isoroku Yamamoto ~
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
~By May Sarton ~
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
~By Queen Christina ~
I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.
~By Matthew Fox ~
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.
~By Buddha ~
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
~By Lady Gaga ~
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
~By Terry Gross ~
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
~By William Gurnall ~
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
~By Black Elk ~
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
~By Plato ~
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
~By Clara Barton ~
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
~By Susan Sontag ~
In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
Let them hate so long as they fear.
~By Lucius Accius ~
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
~By Mary Manin Morrissey ~
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
~By Charles Inglis ~
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
~By Arthur Wellesley ~
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
~By Ivo Andric ~
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
~By Pierre Beaumarchais ~
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
~By William Shenstone ~
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 ~
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
~By John B. S. Haldane ~
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
~By Stewart Udall ~
You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.
~By Bernhard Goetz ~
If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.
~By Jody Watley ~
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.
~By Terry Gross ~
They hate whom they fear.
~By Quintus Ennius ~
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
~By Luis Gutierrez ~
I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
~By Willie Stargell ~
The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
~By Jerome Cady ~
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
~By George Weinberg ~
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
~By Ben Jonson ~
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
~By Norman Cousins ~
I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
~By Beth Orton ~
In time we hate that which we often fear.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
~By Tom Kite ~
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
~By Horace Mann ~
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
~By Edvard Munch ~
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
~By James Thurber ~
We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.
~By Ray Nagin ~
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 a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
~By Anthony de Mello ~
And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
~By Marilyn French ~
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
~By Rita Dove ~
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
~By Bruce Lee ~
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
~By Ernest Gaines ~
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