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 Young

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Yousef Munayyer

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Chuck Palahniuk

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Sophocles

You 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 Steinem

I 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 Lamarr

We have the force, the energy, and the determination, and we will not give in to fear.

Emmanuel Macron

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Robert Falcon Scott

No 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 Ionesco

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Mariska Hargitay

Fear God and work hard.

David Livingstone

The 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 Robinson

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hermann Hesse

Look 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 Longfellow

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

I 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 Jackson

Our 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 Cohen

When 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 Nasrin

We'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 Mensch

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

James Joyce

While 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 Harris

A 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 Hadfield

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

John Glenn

For 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 Mueller

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

Red Adair

I 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-Z

My 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 Cuomo

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Evita Peron

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

John Cassavetes

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Jim Morrison

We 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 Cameron

The 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 Robbins

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Coretta Scott King

I 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 Wesley

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

Kailash Satyarthi

The 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 Ortberg

I don't fear anything.

Bonnie Blair

Every journey starts with fear.

Jake Gyllenhaal

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Mary Manin Morrissey

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

Fear 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 Ferguson

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Lech Walesa

My 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 Sherman

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

Kali Uchis

A 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 Hayden

Due 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 Weingarten

Americans 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