Fear Quotes

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Bell Hooks

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

George Bernard Shaw

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Kristen Wiig

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Alfred Hitchcock

Fear is exciting for me.

Ayrton Senna

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Henry A. Wallace

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

Melissa Rosenberg

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I

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

Steve Perry

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Jack Nicholson

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

Indra Devi

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Henry David Thoreau

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Mary Tyler Moore

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Arabella Weir

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt