Fear Quotes

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

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.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.