Fear Quotes

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.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

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.

~ George S. Patton

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

~ Earl Nightingale

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.

~ Sarah Parish

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

~ Rita Levi-Montalcini

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

~ Brené Brown

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

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.

~ Debbie Ford

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

~ Buddha

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

~ Robert Kennedy

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

~ Luis Gutierrez

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

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

~ G. Gordon Liddy

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

~ Elizabeth Esty

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had.

~ George Michael

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

~ Eric Mccormack

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

~ Kate Mara

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

~ Isabel Allende

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

~ Eli Whitney

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

~ Noam Chomsky

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Excessive fear is always powerless.

~ Aeschylus

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

~ Gail Sheehy

I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

~ David Attenborough

Certain scripts require an ensemble cast. I'm absolutely fine with that. I will not deprive myself of the chance to be part of a good film because of insecurities or fear of losing my market. But my role must be well-defined.

~ Kajal Aggarwal

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

~ Alice Walker

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

~ Nicolas Cage

Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

~ Joan Kirner

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

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

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

~ Thomas Jefferson

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

~ John Wesley

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

~ Abu Bakr

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

~ Lech Walesa

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

~ Charles Stanley

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

~ Joyce Meyer

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

~ Charles Stanley