Quotes About Fear

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.