Quotes About Fear

Confront your fears. Find their root. Educate yourself. Reach out for help. Defeat your fears or they will defeat you. Never give up.

Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

When a thundering horde of drunken Vikings rush a person, it's only natural to flinch.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.