Fear Quotes

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

The creation of God itself, I deduced, came from our primal fear.

Half of learning a new element is just getting over the fear of doing it. Once you mentally prepare yourself enough to do the jump, that is really half the battle.

Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.