Fear - Quotes & Sayings
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.
Stella YoungHumility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Yousef MunayyerIf you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
Chuck PalahniukA word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
SophoclesYou can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.
Gloria SteinemI don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy LamarrWe have the force, the energy, and the determination, and we will not give in to fear.
Emmanuel MacronHunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
Robert Falcon ScottNo society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene IonescoI am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
Mariska HargitayFear God and work hard.
David LivingstoneThe biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are.
David RobinsonYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann HesseLook not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La FontaineAbove all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
Rita Levi-MontalciniI have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
Shirley JacksonOur country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.
Richard CohenWhen I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima NasrinWe'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.
Louise MenschFear is proof of a degenerate mind.
VirgilI fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James JoyceWhile religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Sam HarrisA lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
Chris HadfieldFear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
John GlennFor the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.
Robert MuellerNever fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
Red AdairI don't have any fear of working with Samsung because I'm not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that's just never gonna happen.
Jay-ZMy father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
Andrew CuomoMy biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
Evita PeronYou can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
John CassavetesThe appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim MorrisonWe have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.
Bruce CameronThe brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Tom RobbinsRevenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
Coretta Scott KingI have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
John WesleyI fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
SaadiThe biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash SatyarthiThe human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
John OrtbergI don't fear anything.
Bonnie BlairEvery journey starts with fear.
Jake GyllenhaalYou block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Mary Manin MorrisseyTo fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
David Joseph SchwartzFear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn FergusonI'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
Lech WalesaMy aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh ShermanI don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.
Kali UchisA writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Michael HaydenDue process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
Randi WeingartenAmericans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
Gouverneur Morris