Fear Quotes

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.