In this post, you will find great Fear Quotes from famous people, such as Dalai Lama, Rudy Giuliani, William Jennings Bryan, Nick Harkaway, Chris Evert. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
We can either be governed by fear – fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border – or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that’s America at its best.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems.
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
I’m not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
I’m a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife – sometimes.
I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn’t live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they’ve been brutalized for so long.
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
We fear the thing we want the most.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
When you’re fearful, you stumble.
Once we’re willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was ‘safe,’ we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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.
You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you’re going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you’re on the right track.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Refugees don’t make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
I have no fear of death. More important, I don’t fear life.
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
Don’t be afraid to see what you see.
Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
Actually, I have this random fear, and it’s of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I’d rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes… I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
We only fear what we don’t understand, and I hate to be scared.
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.
Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
Always be courageous and strong, and don’t fear.
Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
Ignorance breeds fear.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
There’s no fear when you’re having fun.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
Government should fear the people, not the other way around.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
‘Malice‘ wasn’t about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
I’m always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don’t get too comfortable.
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn’t happen. That is my only – fear – in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn’t get abused.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego‘s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
The deepest fear we have, ‘the fear beneath all fears,’ is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
I wish to be a martyr, and I don’t fear death.
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
If you don’t find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don’t have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don’t learn how to control your fear.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can’t hope to attain through hard work and emulation.
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I’d hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere – and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Danger is real. But fear is something we create.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
Don’t fear change – embrace it.
You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don’t fear being judged.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.
I delight in what I fear.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
When you have no fear, the possibilities are endless.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.
Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
In the ring, I never really knew fear.
I have a fear of being boring.
I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there’s nothing to fear and hate.
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It’s perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they’ll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Americans fear losing control if they’re forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.
By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.
Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It’s very exciting to test yourself.
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That’s the mentality. Even if you’re scared, just do it.
I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Fear is the passion of slaves.
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing ‘tyranny‘ of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.
If we’re not careful, we become that which we most fear.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.
Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
God helps those who fear Him.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
I don’t believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn’t mean you don’t feel afraid or frightened. I think it’s normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
We in the U.A.E. have no such word as ‘impossible‘; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
I’m very much afraid of being mad – that’s my one fear.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.’
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
I don’t think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Don’t do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.
Fear nothing; attack everything.
I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Fear is exciting for me.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
‘No fear’ is a mindset that I stand for. It’s the reason why I’ve got to where I am today.
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you’re completely free to try anything.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
I don’t fear aging. It’s natural, and I can’t stop it!
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.
I won’t allow myself to have tremendous fear.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Let them hate so long as they fear.
I say I am stronger than fear.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It’s a really good motivator.
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
There’s a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source – the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
Action conquers fear.
We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder – but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Sailing is the closest I can get to nature – it’s adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Isn’t that what we come into politics for? To say to people: ‘You can do it, too – there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.’ And that is what I tried to do.
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
My greatest fear: repetition.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Every journey starts with fear.
Embrace the fear and go for it. That’s what I do. I don’t run from it – I embrace the fear.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Fear leads to more fear, and trust leads to more trust.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
I don’t operate on fear, and I don’t let fear control me.
The key to change… is to let go of fear.
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
I’d make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
When men don’t fear God, they give themselves to evil.
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It’s a test of character, for individuals and nations.
Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
I greatly fear some of America’s greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
I have a son, who is a… not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It’s impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes.
Fear is excitement without breath.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Those who own much have much to fear.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that’s a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
Every game, you’ve got to play with no fear.
Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household.
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers‘ incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Fear created the first gods in the world.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There’s no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.
