Quotes About Fear

preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger; that danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

It was so strange, how much fear there was in the world, and the most fearful of all were so often those who held the power in their hands.

Torquemada seats.

But human motivation is also a thing of the mind, and fear has never been the strongest emotion. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress.

can't take him up there for a short haircut." Hallston smiled coldly. "I doubt anyone

and the real problem was that not all that many people truly wanted to die before turning thirty. And those who did used bombs.

Courage, though, he'd once been told, was being the only one who knew how terrified you were.

It's okay to be scared. I was scared all the time. The important part is to know that you're going to do it.

humble rabbit, cornered by a fox, has nothing to lose by striking out, and rabbits have teeth, and sometimes the rabbit gets lucky.

It was scary, and it was lonely, but it was home for Sergeant Chavez.

room stood Spector with a gun in his hand, pointed at the studio ceiling. Pang says, "John had his fingers in his ears, going, 'Phil, if you

I really like people. But I don't know how it will end.

Being safe is fiction.

If you're mortal, all they can do to you is kill you.

What are the deeds of heroes, except a few frightened people doing the best they can in the circumstances?

For some reason or other, Loge had a horrible feeling that by We, Wotan meant him.

I know what you're doing," the wolf said. "This is advanced interrogation techniques, right? First you destroy my self-esteem and sense of individuality, then you force me to tell you where the pack hides out, so your woodcutter pals can come and slaughter us. Well, you're wasting your breath. I won't talk. I won't talk. Got that?

But to act, most of us must first overcome the fears that have blocked our creativity in the past.

one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in such ways as fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while much has been said about fear of failure, it still is the single biggest obstacle people face to creative success.

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.