Fear Quotes
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A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
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Fear-based faith combined with groupthink subconsciously restricts our ability and willingness to consider answers that are beyond the limited, usually binary, options fear presents to us. False binary options tend to go hand in hand with tribalism, and breaking free from the latter will lead you to rejecting the former....and we ultimately want to break free from how the group thinks.
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Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.
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For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It's a lot of pressure, and it's scary, and I don't think that fear ever goes away.
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I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is.
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The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
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Great stories move through fear.
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
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Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.
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I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
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Countries at war lived in a state of perpetual fear.
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
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Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I'm very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.
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Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
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I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
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Gambini was addicted to asking the sort of ultimate questions about which one could speculate endlessly with no fear of ever arriving at a solution.
