Fear Quotes

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean De La Bruyere

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Honore De Balzac

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
Neale Walsch

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale

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.
Francis Bacon

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Matt Blunt

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon Johnson

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
Montaigne

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William Burnham

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
Aristotle

'Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.'
Yoda

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
Tim Roth

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

I am not yet comfortable with the media. I'm afraid of the unknown. I'm shy and am trying to overcome my fears.
Veronica Varekova

My biggest fear is that I'll fall over in the middle of a live routine, or that I'll forget what I'm supposed to be doing. That would be terrible.
Jan Ravens

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads. To whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams [erm quite indeed]
Bram Stoker

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions
Ovid

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favourite of fortune.
Francis Quarles

Never take counsel of your fears.
Andrew Jackson

My biggest fear is dying.
John Peel

Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy shit, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.
Tara Reid

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George Patton

We had to borrow Bolton Wanderers' team coach, we stayed at a Fawlty Towers hotel and the kick-off was delayed half an hour by a faulty fire alarm. I feared it wasn't our day.
Paul Jewell

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained
Abraham Lincoln

He who doesn't fear death dies only once. [You can't die more than once can you?]
Giovanni Falcone

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.
Stephan Crane

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear
Florence Nightingale

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh (of John Knox)
James Douglas

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vincent T Lombardi

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed [very cheerful!]
Jim Jones

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
Alexander McQueen

How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies.
Henry Melville

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Fear of destruction and imminent danger are those that will ultimately drive us forward onto survival in the future.
William Floyd

Patrick [Swayze] was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace. Gorgeous and strong, he was a real cowboy with a tender heart. He was fearless and insisted on always doing his own stunts, so it was not surprising to me that the war he waged on his cancer was so courageous and dignified
Jennifer Grey

All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him, and rejoice
William Kethe

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C S Lewis

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W Clement Stone

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker



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