Fear Quotations | Page 7

I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

There's just a certain fear that people have when they put meat coming out of a printer in their mouth.

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

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

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

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America.

One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn't, none of the religions could invoke this important thing - that science has no evidence of, by the way - called free will.

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?

Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.