Fear Quotes
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I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.
Arnold Palmer
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Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
Anupam Kher
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Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya
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The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.
Ernst Rohm
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James
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I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course. Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.
D. H. Lawrence
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If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Sean Connery
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In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
Peter Mandelson
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Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.
Bijan Pakzad
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
Lois Wyse
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Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.
Max Brooks
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.
Wallace D. Wattles
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
Quincy Jones
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
Robert Frost
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I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
Anthony Carmona
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The man at the center Donald Trump, soon to be the world's most powerful, now shoulders the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans, the fear and anxiety of millions more.
George Stephanopoulos
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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
Mel Gibson
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There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life.
Pramila Jayapal
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People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself.
Bessel van der Kolk