Fear Quotes

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.