Fear Quotations | Page 5

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 think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

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

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.

Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.

My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.

You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how they call it homophobia, because that's a fear of the same. It's more heterophobia. It's a fear of something different from yourself.

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.

My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.