Fear Quotes

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.