Quotes about Fear

“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”

“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.”

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.”

“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.”

“I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.”

“Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.”

“Every game, you've got to play with no fear.”

“Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.”

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

“I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.”

“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.”

“Fear is excitement without breath.”

“My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here.”

“You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you're going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you're on the right track.”

“When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.”

“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”

“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”

“I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.”