Quotes about Fear

“Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.”

“Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”

“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.”

“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

“The thing I fear most is fear.”

“In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.”

“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”

“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”

“Scalded cats fear even cold water.”

“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”

“There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.”

“Fear attracts attack.”

“War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.”

“My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.”

“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.”

“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.”

“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.”

“The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.”

“I've always been someone who's had to compartmentalize my life because I was in the closet, and I was in fear of outing myself. I always had so much going on in my mind and couldn't share it with anyone, so I actually feel like, now that I'm out, I have less to compartmentalize.”

“Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.”