Fear Quotes
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In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
Heather Brooke
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The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.
Martin Luther
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
Bill Crawford
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I understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists.
Abi Morgan
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There is no worse emotion than fear.
Joe Torre
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It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
John Lennon The Beatles
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You don't fear for your life in the middle of a storm, you can't really afford to.
Ellen MacArthur
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Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.
Brennan Manning
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You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.
Sharon Stone
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To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.
Bram van Velde
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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
Jennifer Donnelly
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There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?
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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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Albert Camus
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If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
Gautama Buddha
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
Victor Hugo
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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
Willa Fitzgerald
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We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.
Wilfred Trotter
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I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.
Jasper Carrott
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare