- The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Fear
- The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine on Fear
- The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
- The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- Noam Chomsky on 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.
- H. L. Mencken on Fear
- The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
- John Stossel on Fear
- The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- George Eliot on Fear
- The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
- Warren Farrell on Fear
- The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
- Twyla Tharp on Fear
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Fear
- The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
- Clarence Darrow on Fear
- The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Fear
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
- Noam Chomsky on Fear
- The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
- Adam Smith on Fear
- The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
- David Icke on Fear
- The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
- Maynard James Keenan on Fear
- The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
- Liza Minnelli on Fear
- 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.
- Winston Churchill on Fear
- The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
- Thomas Huxley on Fear
- The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
- George Weinberg on Fear
- The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Fear
- The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
- George Saunders on Fear
- The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.
- Stokely Carmichael on Fear
- The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine on Fear
- The strongest passion is fear.
- Jean De La Fontaine on Fear
- The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
- George W. Bush on Fear
- The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
- Jane Smiley on Fear
- The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
- Ayelet Waldman on Fear
- The thing I fear most is fear.
- Michel De Montaigne on Fear
- The thing we fear we bring to pass.
- Elbert Hubbard on Fear
- The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- Oprah Winfrey on Fear
- The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
- The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
- Josh Billings on Fear
- The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
- Anton Chekhov on Fear
- The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
- George S. Patton on Fear
- The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
- George Saunders on Fear
- The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
- Joyce Maynard on Fear
- The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
- Karl A. Menninger on Fear
- The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan on Fear
- The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.
- Patrick Wilson on Fear
- The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
- Sylvia Browne on Fear
- The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
- The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Fear
- The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
- James K. Polk on Fear
- The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Fear
- The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
- William James on Fear
- There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
- Conan O'Brien on Fear
- There are many victories worse than a defeat.
- George Eliot on Fear
- There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
- Cyril Connolly on Fear
1 2 3 4