Quotes About Fear

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)