Fear Quotes

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Barack Obama

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Bashar al-Assad

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

Paulo Coelho

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Publilius Syrus

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Salman Rushdie

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

John Stossel

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

Stephen Richards

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Leona Lewis

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

Florence Welch

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise...

J.K. Rowling

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

George Eliot

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Paulo Coelho

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Jane Smiley

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.

Charisma Carpenter

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

Harlan Coben

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur