Fear Quotes
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Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
Abraham Lincoln
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Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
Sara Bareilles
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
Damien Chazelle
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
Lafcadio Hearn
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There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.
Penelope Cruz
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That fear which gives birth to thoughts, and the fear of thoughts…
Emil Cioran
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
H. R. McMaster
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And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights - the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation - the right to breathe air as nature provided it - the right of future generations to a healthy existence?
John F. Kennedy
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch
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A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.
Anthony Robbins
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
Rachel Cusk
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When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.
Kage Baker
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
Laura Marling
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A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
Chris Hadfield
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
Viggo Mortensen
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
Ira Sachs
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
Victoria Osteen
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
Oscar Wilde
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
Warren E. Burger