Fear Quotations

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

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

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

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.

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America - was one of fear, and trust of government. Because we put ourselves in the hands of the authority who was going to protect us. And, you know, we gave up a lot of our liberties to Homeland Security, etc.

It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.

I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

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.

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

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.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

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.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

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.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

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

I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.

The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.

The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

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.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.