Fear Quotes

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.