Fear Quotes

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maxwell Maltz

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

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

Sophocles

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Neil Gaiman

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Josh Billings

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Laura Schlessinger

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Corrie Ten Boom

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

Ian Rush

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Kiefer Sutherland

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

Christopher Meloni

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Harry S. Truman

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Matthew Henry