Fear Quotes
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I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.
Jenny Slate
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.
Oprah Winfrey
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
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Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
Gavin de Becker
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
Andy Rooney
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I've always loved horror, I've always loved collecting, I've always loved weird and macabre things, and I've always loved conventions. So what could be better than having your own Fear FestEviL where all those great and crazy things can be enjoyed by like-minded people under one pretty cool roof? Nothing!
Kirk Hammett Metallica
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Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.
Lawrence Bender
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I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
April Bowlby
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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
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
Alexander Wang
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Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
Maria Shriver
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Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
Jimmy Iovine
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We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
Charles Evers
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How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
Joel Barlow
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I'm not too afraid of much but I do fear not being able to race some day. I can imagine it would be quite sad.
Earl Bamber
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Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Renata Adler
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Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.
Summer Sanders
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom
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For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
Kurt Student
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There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Great stories move through fear.
Donald Miller
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Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
John Adams