Fear Quotes

We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

Only your mind can produce fear.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Fear is a healthy part of success.

I regret nothing and fear less.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

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

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.