Quotes About Fear

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

He who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

We lend power to the things we fear!

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

Fear is the mind-killer.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.

Fear makes you docile.