Fear Quotes

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

I delight in what I fear.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.