Fear Quotations | Page 3

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.

Fear created the first gods in the world

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.

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.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.

If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

How very little can be done under the spirit of 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!

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

The Democrats have nothing to cheer but fear itself.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.