Quotes about Fear

“My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.”

“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.”

“People need each other to help each other up. But we can't stand near each other because we fear each other. When you get over fear, nothing matters anymore but love.”

“If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”

“In recent years, Ronaldo is the example: wherever you put him in the attacking three, he's going to make an impact and the opposition are going to fear him. Being a constant threat, that's what I need to develop.”

“Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.”

“Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.”

“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”

“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.”

“Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.”

“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”

“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”

“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”

“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”

“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.”

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

“You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.”

“I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.”

“We must stop feeling fear.”