Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Fear.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Paulo Coelho
He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. Eddison
We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
Zack Wamp
Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.
Paul R. Scheele
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.
Walter Hill, Wild Bill movie (ba
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
Ruby Dee
Fear is always a good motivator.
James Dyson
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
Sara Blakely
I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.
Junior Seau
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
Sam Shepard
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
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
John Charles Polanyi
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben
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
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
Ayelet Waldman
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Noam Chomsky
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
