Fear Quotes
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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
T. H. White
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Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
John Glenn
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
Kurt Vonnegut
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How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
Seth Godin
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As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.
Arlene Blum
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You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
Joseph Heller
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The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.
John Muir
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Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
Sarah Parish
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About working with Marilyn Monroe.We got along very well. My only complaint about her was that she was late all the time, but she was late out of fear as much as anything else, but it was hard to sit around and wait. She was usually an hour or two late every morning.
Lauren Bacall
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Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Samuel Ullman
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.
Philippe Petit
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Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
Brad Pitt
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Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
William Golding
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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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Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
Barnabas
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He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Publilius Syrus
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Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
Judy Collins
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The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
Al Berto
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My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.
Anne Hathaway
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Fear is an even better fuel than anger.
Hank Green
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon