Fear Quotes

11978 Fear quotes by 5316 unique authors

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be… — Donna Woolfolk Cross
Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities. — Unknown Author
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared. — Eula Biss
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right… — Eula Biss
Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk by falling, to talk by… — Tal Ben-Shahar
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill.… — Joan Dunayer
When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back. — Brad Goreski
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. — Stanley Coren
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… — Socrates
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to… — Irshad Manji
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream… — Jacqueline Novogratz
Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could… — Joseph Stowell
If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you. — Tim Lebbon
This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million… — Adam Gollner
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. — Yousef Munayyer
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it. — Gautama Buddha
The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less… — David W Augsburger
Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today. — Unknown Author
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying. — Elsie Clews Parsons
We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays. — Learned Hand
I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know… — Kathy Mattea
Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me. — Michael Treanor
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness. — Susan Jeffers
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility,… — Phyllis Schlafly
Sometimes when we touch..The honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide. I want to hold you till I die, 'til… — Dan Hill

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