Fear Quotes

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

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.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Fear is excitement without breath.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

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.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

I say I am stronger than fear.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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.

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.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

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.

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

I have a fear of being boring.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

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.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

We fear the thing we want the most.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.