Fear Quotes

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

You cannot be brave without fear.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

The weak fear happiness itself.

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.

Faith is the andtidote for fear

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Whenever I do overcome my inherent fear, it turns out well.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.