Fear Quotes

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.

If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear.

Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

What we fear we often rage against.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

A warrior never worries about his fear.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Failure is a word I don't accept.