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Fear Quotes
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
112
"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."
101
"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."
88
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
73
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
68
"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."
67
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
Fear,
60
"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
58
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
49
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
49
"I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me."
44
"Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush."
44
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."
40
"We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side."
40
"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."
40
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives."
39
"A fearless person lives fully, a fearful person just exists."
39
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
37
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
36
"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all."
36
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
36
"Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone."
Fear,
36
"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."
34
"If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?"
34
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
34
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
33
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