Fears Quotes

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.