Fear Quotes
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I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
Caroline Myss
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Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.
Bob Goff
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But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.
Michael Ryan
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Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
Ray Bradbury
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As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.
Diane Ackerman
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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
George Tenet
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill
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When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
Thomas Aquinas
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.
Marcel Proust
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That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.
Etty Hillesum
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This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.
Steve Bartlett
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I've never had that fear of going against the grain.
Kevin Costner
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
Bob Goff
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You have to face your fear.
Carrie Jones
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We all have the same fear, the fear of failure. We all have the fear of failure…as someone successful the weight of all that you’ve done is on you.
Jay-Z
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"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".
Elizabeth Goudge
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The mere fact that Tommy Atkins saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
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The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.
Sean Penn
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Courage is not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names.
Bob Goff
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Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.
Melissa Etheridge