Fear Quotes
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.
Bob Sorge
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This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
Adam Gollner
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The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.
Dalai Lama
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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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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
Seth Godin
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Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
Charles Capps
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
John Milton
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There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
Eva Figes
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
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Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.
Betty Liu
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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
Epictetus
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Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
Gautama Buddha
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Ignorance breeds fear.
Mike Wilson
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
Miguel de Cervantes
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For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
Albert Camus
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He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
William Blake
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
Catherynne M. Valente
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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
Edward S. Walker, Jr.
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Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
Haruki Murakami
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Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
Elisha Cuthbert
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The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.
Elana Dykewomon
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even if tax hikes happen as feared, vast history tells me it doesn't have to have the big bad impact folks fear. And fear of a false factor is always bullish.
Kenneth Fisher