Quotes About Fear

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, not to lead people by reason, but to restrain them by fear in such a way that they flee what is bad rather than love the virtues, simply intend all other people to be as miserable as they are, and so it is not surprising that they are for the most part irksome and hateful to human beings.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Fear breeds superstition.

How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake.

People who are saying that they are afraid of heights are usually not actually afraid of heights. They are afraid of falling, which means it's a synonym for losing control. So they have to get in touch with the definitional belief to find out what's really going on.

Fear, f-e-a-r, is: False Evidence Appearing Real

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.

That fine line between bravery and stupidity is endlessly debated – the difference really doesn't matter.

I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

Tengo este necio temor: el temor de ser vieja sin haber sido nunca joven de verdad.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

As far as 'Khatron Ke Khiladi' is concerned, I think it's one of the most fairest TV reality shows.

I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.