Fear Quotes

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
– Kenny Rogers
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
– Bertrand Russell
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
– Bertrand Russell
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
– Babe Ruth
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
– Steve Ross
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.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.
– Ian Rush
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.
– Mark Rutherford
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
– Tecumseh
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.
– Virgil Thomson
I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
– Billy Bob Thornton
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
– James Thurber
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
– Simon Travaglia
When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril.
– Harry S. Truman
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
– Mark Twain
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
– Sun Tzu
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
– Emmanuel Teney
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
– Dorothy Thompson
We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
– Robert Trout
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
– Morihei Ueshiba
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
– Leonardo da Vinci
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
– Leonardo da Vinci
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
– Virgil
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
– Voltaire
We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
– Zack Wamp
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
– Edward Walker
I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
– Jonny Wilkinson
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
– Tad Williams
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
– Edward Young
Action conquers fear.
– Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)
– Lucius Accius
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
– Bertolt Brecht
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
– Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
– Marshal Ferdinand Foch
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
– Franklin P. Jones
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
– H. L. Mencken
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
– George Sewell
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
– Sophocles
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
– Thomas J. Watson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.
– Mariska Hargitay
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
– Bear Grylls
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
– Doug Coupland
You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.
– Beth Ditto
You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.
– Lawrence Kasdan
You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.
– Sharon Stone
You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.
– Anish Kapoor
You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
– Rachel McAdams
You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.
– Seann William Scott
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
– Francesca Annis
You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
– Hillary Clinton
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
– Ron Chernow
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
– Candace Bushnell
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
– John Mayer
You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.
– Johnny Vegas
You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.
– Nicole Kidman
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
– Charlize Theron
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
– Christina Ricci
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
– Indra Devi
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.
– Tony Snow
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
– Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
– Bashar al-Assad
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
– Corrie Ten Boom
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
– Federico Garcia Lorca
With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.
– Ellen Barkin
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
– Cathy Freeman
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
– Natan Sharansky
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
– Charles Frohman
Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
– Craig Ferguson
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
– Henry Miller
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
While there's life, there's fear.
– Mason Cooley
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.
– Socrates
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
– St. Francis of Assisi
Where fear is, happiness is not.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
– W. Edwards Deming
Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.
– David Duchovny
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
– John Charles Polanyi
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
– Drew Barrymore
When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
– M. Night Shyamalan
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.
– Charisma Carpenter
When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
– Wayne Rooney
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
– Abu Bakr
When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.
– John Stossel
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
– Natan Sharansky
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
– Thomas Jefferson
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
– Thomas Frank
When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.
– Ray Comfort
When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
– Jeanne Moreau
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
– Vincent D'Onofrio
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
– Patrick Swayze
What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.
– Robert Crais
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
– Jeffrey Kluger
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
– Isabel Allende
Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
– Ricky Williams
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
– Emmanuelle Beart