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Quotes About Fear

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
~ J. B. Smoove
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
~ Seneca the Younger
Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.
~ Robin Sharma
Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you.
~ M. Russell Ballard
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
~ Amy Tan
We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.
~ Danny Boyle
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
~ Pierre Corneille
When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.
~ C.E. Morgan
Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the source of spiritual power that will give you and me the assurance that we have nothing to fear.
~ M. Russell Ballard
Evil has only the power we give it.
~ Ray Bradbury
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.
~ Paul Johnson
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
~ Alan Cumming
The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim.
~ Robin Sharma
Where there's fear, there is power.
~ Starhawk
The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.
~ Stephen R. Bissette
If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.
~ Robert Loggia
I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.
~ Hayden Panettiere
If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.
~ Hillary Clinton
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
~ Joseph McCabe
I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.
~ Julia Kent
What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
~ Kristin Cashore
Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
~ Lois Wyse
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi