Fear Quotes

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

There can be no security where there is fear.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.