Quotes About Fear

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

Beware the power of the dark side.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.

The less you fear, the more power you will have.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.