Fear Quotes

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
– Steve Irwin
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
– George Santayana
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
– Patrick J. Kennedy
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
– Paulo Coelho
Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.
– Melissa Rosenberg
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
– Ben Okri
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
– Maggie Kuhn
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
– Anna Deavere Smith
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
– Eric Cantona
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
– Edward Albert
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
– Robert Kiyosaki
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
– Jesse Jackson
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
– Steve Irwin
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
– Sam Shepard
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
– Kevin Mitnick
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
– Russell Baker
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
– Jeffrey Sachs
Respect and fear are two different things.
– Jane Smiley
President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.
– Andrea Jung
President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.
– Eliot Spitzer
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
– John Steinbeck
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
– J. K. Rowling
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
– Audrey Hepburn
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
– Natan Sharansky
People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.
– Dominic Monaghan
People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.
– Eric Holder
People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
– Dan Farmer
People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
– Christopher Meloni
People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
– Sade Adu
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
– Henry Louis Gates
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
– Julien Benda
Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
– Maria Shriver
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
– James Bovard
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
– King Abdullah II
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
– Charles Stanley
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
– Andrew Jackson
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
– Natan Sharansky
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
– Lars von Trier
One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.
– Criss Angel
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
– Ayelet Waldman
On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.
– Michael Sheen
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
– Barack Obama
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
– Sebastian Junger
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
– Sam Snead
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
– Albert Camus
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.
– Peter Guber
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
– Nicolaus Copernicus
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
– Alan Watts
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
– Samuel Goldwyn
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
– Christopher Columbus
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
– Olive Schreiner
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
– Tertullian
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
– Halle Berry
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
– Natan Sharansky
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
– Thomas Jefferson
My only fear is the unknown.
– David Blaine
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
– Shane Warne
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
– Danica McKellar
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
– David Mamet
My greatest fear: repetition.
– Max Frisch
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
– Anthony Horowitz
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
– Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
– Portia de Rossi
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
– John Hawkes
My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.
– Trey Parker
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
– Cornel West
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
– M. Night Shyamalan
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.
– Travis Barker
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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
– Polly Toynbee
Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
– R. L. Stine
Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
– Marvin Gaye
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
– Lev Grossman
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
– Henry A. Wallace
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
– Virginia C. Andrews
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
– Jack Dee
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
– Khalil Gibran
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
– Molly Ivins
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
– Alfred Hitchcock
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
– Merle Shain
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Madame de Stael
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
– Dorothy Day
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
– Andrew Stanton
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
– Michael Jordan
Let us banish fear.
– Carter G. Woodson
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
– Francis Quarles
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
– Judy Blume
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
– King Abdullah II
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
– William Shenstone
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
– Max Frisch
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
– Terry Gross
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
– T. E. Lawrence
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
– May Sarton
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
– John Boyd Orr