Fear Quotes
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.
There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
