Fear Quotes

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

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

~ Anupam Kher

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

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

~ Bobbie Ann Mason

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

~ Arsene Wenger

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

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

~ Pat Summitt

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

~ Gordon Parks

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

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

~ Sonia Johnson

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

~ Lord Byron

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

~ Taylor Swift

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.'

~ Ricky Martin

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

~ Julius Caesar

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

~ Henri Nouwen

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

~ Saint Ambrose

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

~ James A. Baldwin

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

~ Bertrand Russell

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

~ François Rabelais

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

~ Susan Cain

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

~ Henry Rollins

When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

~ Keegan Allen

There was a period in my life when I would say no, and I didn't know why I was saying no. In most cases, it was out of fear, just trying to be safe. Because 'no' will keep you safe. 'No' won't draw attention to you. But all the cool things are on the other side of 'Yes, And.'

~ Ali Farahnakian

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

~ Jim Rash

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

~ David Cronenberg

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

~ Sandy Koufax

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

~ Taylor Schilling

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

~ Isaac Asimov

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

~ Diane Abbott

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

~ Shirley Jackson

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

~ Ramakrishna

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

~ Fernando Flores

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

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.

~ Paul Giamatti

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 have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

~ Phoebe Philo