Fear Quotes
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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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I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.
Dove Cameron
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Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
David Harsanyi
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I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.
Billy Eichner
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
George Bernard Shaw
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Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
Napoleon Hill
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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
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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Christy Turlington
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Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Joseph Schwartz
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard Feynman
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To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
Donatella Versace
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
William Gurnall
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You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.
Dalai Lama
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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
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Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
Edward Sapir
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Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.
Josh Groban
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Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
Bob Monkhouse
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Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.
James Watkins
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
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I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.
Penelope Cruz
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Arthur Ashe
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I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
Billy Bob Thornton
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I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
Dory Previn
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People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
Dakota Fanning