Quotes about Fear

“This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.”

“I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.”

“Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.”

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”

“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”

“When you have no fear, the possibilities are endless.”

“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”

“I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.”

“I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.”

“If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?”

“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.”

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”

“If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.”

“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.”

“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”

“Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.”

“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”