Quotes About Fear

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.