Fear Quotes

• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Lost

• There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Long
  • Country
  • Perfect

• Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

  

  Kjell Magne Bondevik
  • People
  • Violence
  • Motivated

• She closed her eyes. And while her intellect wouldn’t let her realize her deepest fear, that all this might soon be gone forever, nevertheless she stood there for a time and worshipped the only way a person like her could worship-in silence and solitude, under the temple of the sky.

  

  David Brin
  • Time
  • She
  • Eyes

• The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

  

  Norman Podhoretz
  • Political
  • Secret
  • Blacks

• I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

  

  Alan Paton
  • May
  • Sorrow
  • Impoverish

• The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Replace

• If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • World
  • Long
  • Remember

• I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Live
  • Real
  • Learn

• Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Intelligent

• Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Party

• Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

  

  David Furnish
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • World
  • God
  • Walking

• The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Fear
  • Study
  • Communication

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• I don't have the fear of my looks changing.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Fear

• I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Fear

• Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Good
  • Sea
  • Anchor

• Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fear
  • Anger
  • Drive

• Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • God
  • Trying
  • Help

• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Ambition

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