Fear Quotes

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.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Fear controls you.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.