Quotes About Fear

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

You better hope you're not alone.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

I hope I die before I get old.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

I've questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.

I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.