Quotes About Fear

Listen to your fear but don't obey it.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don't remember a lot of stuff in my career.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.