Fear Quotes

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

A poor man fear for money works against him.

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

It was written without fear and without research.

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.