Fear quotes

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

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

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Think of the better world we could build if men and women, if even for a little while longer, were freed from their greatest fear: the fear of death and the grave.