Fear - Quotes & Sayings

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

James Mattis

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

Chris Hadfield

I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.

John Wesley

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

Jonathan Winters

When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

Jeff Hardy

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Hugh Jackman

We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

Kate Winslet

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

Joseph Prince

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

Giordano Bruno

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

John Stossel

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

Darren Aronofsky

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

Dana Perino

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

Steve Perry

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

Kamal Haasan

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

Kurt Elling

Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.

Peter Abelard

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Lou Henry Hoover

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

Casey Affleck

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

Heather Brooke

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Ray Comfort

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

Frank Serpico

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

David Guetta

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Marilyn French

FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.

Andrew Yang

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

John Boyd Orr

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Chauncey Depew

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Hans Blix

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.

Brendan Myers

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

Joko Beck

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

J. Anthony Lukas

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

Joyce Meyer

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Saint Francis de Sales

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Jack Nicholson

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.

Julie Andrews

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

Shirley Chisholm

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Robert Kiyosaki

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Matthew McConaughey

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

Shakira

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Rihanna