Fear Quotes

• Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Death
  • Die

• Gambini was addicted to asking the sort of ultimate questions about which one could speculate endlessly with no fear of ever arriving at a solution.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Fear

• Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • Different
  • Islamic

• He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Heart
  • She
  • Joy

• It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

  

  Marc Morial
  • Fear
  • Lost
  • City

• 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
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Help

• Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Hand
  • Doubt
  • Members

• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Thinking
  • Teacher
  • Exercise

• In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks
  • Hand
  • Taken
  • Failure

• When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Silence

• I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fear
  • Go Away
  • First Fight

• Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Why
  • House
  • Knowledge

• Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Light

• This is the war I fear.

  

  Lord Mountbatten
  • War
  • Fear

• Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Challenge
  • Challenges
  • Stronger

• So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Characters
  • Sufferings
  • Presuppositions

• Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

  

  Douglas Wood
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • House
  • Pain
  • Dog

• Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.

  

  Plutarch
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Boat

• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  

  Martin Luther
  • The Lord
  • Govern
  • Winds

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Men
  • Enemy

• I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • Mind
  • Fear

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