Quotes about Fear

“There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.”

“Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.”

“Fear leads to more fear, and trust leads to more trust.”

“I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.”

“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”

“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”

“'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.”

“The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.”

“One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.”

“I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.”

“The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.”

“The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I've still got, but losing the memory is another matter.”

“Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

“Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.”

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”

“People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.”

“Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.”

“As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

“My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.”

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”