Fear Quotes

Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.

Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

The less you fear, the more power you will have.

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers!

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

Don't fear the darkness if you carry the light within.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

Take pictures of what you fear.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.