Fear Quotes

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

I don't fear anything now.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Americans have discovered fear.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.