Fear Quotes

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.