logo

Quotes About Fear

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.
~ Marcy Dermansky
I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
~ Marion Cotillard
I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.
~ Marjane Satrapi
I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.
~ Martin Amis
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.
~ Michael K. Williams
What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.
~ Morten Tyldum
You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.
~ Norman Mailer
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.
~ Patricia Wentworth
Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
~ Penn Jillette
We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.
~ Rhonda Britten
The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.
~ Stephen King
I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.
~ Tim Rice
Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.
~ Yoko Ono
Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight
~ William James
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
~ Albert Einstein
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
~ Plato
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
~ Kanye West
Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.
~ Germany Kent
The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.
~ Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
~ Thomas Jefferson
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
~ Richard Henry Lee
Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.
~ James Madison