Quotes About Fear

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Never take counsel of your fears.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.