Fear - Quotes & Sayings
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles DavisThere is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
Dmitri MendeleevThe fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. CioranSo about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I've come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me - unless it says run, and then I run.
Tracee Ellis RossWhen I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.
Woody HarrelsonWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards DemingI've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
Hugh JackmanFear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.
Marilyn MansonWhen you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Wayne RooneyI think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken BurnsI delight in what I fear.
Shirley JacksonFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul SartreThe regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
Liza MinnelliI think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.
Denis VilleneuveLibertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
Harry BrowneI trained for months to figure out how to ride a motorcycle. I have kind of a major fear of them. I have a major fear of going at fast speeds without any kind of protection, no helmet, an actor on the back with no helmet. I felt very afraid to do it. I love that I did it and overcame the fear and was able to do that.
Carrie-Anne MossThere is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Dorothy ThompsonThe First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Nick HarkawayIt's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.
Katherine McNamaraSome days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
Edward AlbertFor me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.
John GrantWe consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
PersiusWe crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton OurslerShow me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou BrockThere's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
Ben StillerThe key to change... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne CashI fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.
William WhippleThere's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.
Matthew StoverFear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.
Saori YoshidaFear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert HubbardI fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
VirgilFew women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret MeadAt first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
Kendrick LamarTo withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel de CervantesI think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
Dolly PartonBeing brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly PartonThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de MontaigneTo have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
HoraceYou cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
John MayerEverything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel BrooksI write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan DidionProsperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis BaconThere are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
Conan O'BrienI'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
Florence WelchLife is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
Bernie SiegelAnd if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black ElkI've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.
John LydonI always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross