Fear Quotes

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
– Joseph Joubert
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
– Harry Browne
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
– Sean Connery
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
– Jonathan Sacks
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
– Jimmy Carter
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.
– Jodie Foster
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
– Richard Le Gallienne
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
– Jacqueline Cochran
It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.
– Lucy Alibar
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
– Andy Murray
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
– Roger Ascham
If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.
– Kathleen Sebelius
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
– John Paul Jones
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
– Jennifer Lopez
I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
– Heston Blumenthal
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
– Julianna Baggott
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
– Matt Damon
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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.
– Emanuel Steward
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.
– Malcolm Mclaren
I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.
– Natasha Richardson
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
– Jack Abramoff
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
– John Mahoney
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
– LL Cool J
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
– Lou Gerstner
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
– Rachel McAdams
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
– Garry Shandling
I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
– Kristen Stewart
I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.
– Jeff Gordon
I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
– Alexander Wang
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.
– Kevin Bacon
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
– A. N. Wilson
I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
– Lady Gaga
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
– Jackson Pollock
I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
– Steven Seagal
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
– Damien Hirst
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.
– Erica Jong
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
– Michael Buble
I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
– Kate Mara
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
– Sylvester Stallone
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
– Kelly Clarkson
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
– Albert Ellis
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
– Tony Kushner
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
– Moses Mendelssohn
I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
– Susana Martinez
I fear God and respect God and love God.
– Brett Ratner
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
– Emma Watson
I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.
– Melanie Griffith
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
– Tupac Shakur
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
– David Walliams
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
– Hedy Lamarr
I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.
– Cathy McMorris
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
– Javier Bardem
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
– Amy Tan
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.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
– Arsenio Hall
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
– Oliver Hudson
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
– Chanakya
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
– Pierre Corneille
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
– Garrett Hardin
Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.
– Catherine Ashton
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
– Floyd Patterson
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
– Frederick Smith
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.
– Charles Stanley
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
– Douglas Wood
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
– A. N. Wilson
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
– Ernest Hemingway
Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
– Donald Cargill
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
– Edward Albert
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
– Andrew Shue
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
– Tom Kite
Fear clogs faith liberates.
– Elbert Hubbard
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
– Joel Osteen
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
– Paul Ryan
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
– Stanislav Grof
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.
– Louis E. Boone
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
– Nicolas Malebranche
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.
– Gary Ryan Blair
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
– Jerry Bruckheimer
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
– G. Gordon Liddy
Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
– John Dryden
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
– Horace Smith
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
– Edward Albert
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
– George S. Patton
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
– Aristotle
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.
– David Ben-Gurion
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
– Plutarch
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
– Stanislav Grof
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
– Kenichi Fukui
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
– Ayelet Waldman
But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
– Herbie Mann
But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.
– Cliff Richard
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
– Anne Boyd
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
– Kevin O'Leary
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
– Ryan White
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
– Kevin Patterson
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
– Charles Stanley
Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.
– Publilius Syrus
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
– Jacqueline Bisset