Quotes About Fear

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.

If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.

I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.