Fear Quotes

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

I don't fear anything.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.