Fear Quotes

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Almost every person wonders who their soul mate will be or where they will find them and everyone has or will suffer a love loss or the fear of that loss at different points in their lives.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.

Work ethics eliminates fear.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.