Fear Quotes

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

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

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.