Quotes About Fear

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo no one was there.

Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Fear can be headier than whisky once man has acquired a taste for it.

How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.

Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.

There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.

Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.

How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?

The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Until you eliminate your own fears, you will never know your capabilities.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.