Fear Quotes

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

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.

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.