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The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.
— Joseph J. Lhota
There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.
— Helen Mirren
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
— Nathan Hale
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
— Edmund Hillary
Every journey starts with fear.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
For me, there is only love and fear.
— Pink
Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.
— Jane McGonigal
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
— Michael Hayden
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
— Maria Bamford
Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.
— Rick Rubin
An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.
— Frank Serpico
I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
— Antonio Tabucchi
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.
— Penelope Cruz
What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.
— Twiggy
The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.
— Henry Rollins
Man's greatest fear is chaos.
— Marilyn Manson
No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
— Charles B. Rangel
My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
— Steve-O
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
— Alice Walker
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
— Giordano Bruno
The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
— Martha Beck
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
— Anne Hutchinson
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
— Anne Lamott
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
— Joel Osteen
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.
— James McAvoy
Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
— Queen Latifah
Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.
— Denis O'Hare
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
— Ernest Gaines
I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.
— Marcus Buckingham
Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.
— Peter Abelard
Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.
— Joyce Meyer
I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.
— Ashley Tisdale
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.
— Jonathan Kozol
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
— Coretta Scott King
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
— Chanakya
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
— Judy Blume
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
— Sophocles
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
— David Bowie
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
— Jennifer Lopez
I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.
— Odell Beckham, Jr.
Fear is the foundation of safety.
— Tertullian
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.
— Dean Ornish
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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.
— Socrates
I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.
— Steven Wright
It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.
— Nick Jonas
Not being happy really is my fear.
— Keke Palmer
Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.
— Gabrielle Giffords
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
— Abraham Maslow
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. 
— John Ortberg
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
— John Henry Newman
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
— Ronald Reagan
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
— George Lucas
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
— Marilyn Monroe
You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.
— Duane Chapman
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
— Oliver Stone
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
— George Saunders
For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.
— Georges St-Pierre
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.
— April Bloomfield
Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
— Ellen Datlow
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
— Steve Perry
I had a fear of being alone.
— Gloria Gaynor
Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
— Laura Wilkinson
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
— Bear Grylls
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.
— Andrea Bocelli
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
— Gerald Jampolsky
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
— Aristotle
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
— Franz Kafka
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike. 
— Horace Mann
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.
— Edward Snowden
Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.
— Ciputra
American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious.
— Simon Rattle
A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
— Herb Kelleher
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
— Kevin Whately
We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.
— Bruce Cameron
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
— Vernon Howard
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
— Virgil Thomson
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
— Richard Le Gallienne
In the ring, I never really knew fear.
— Rocky Marciano
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
— Joseph Conrad
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
— Aristotle
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
— Gabby Douglas
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.
— Johnny Vegas
Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'
— Shashi Tharoor
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
— Javier Camara
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
— Grace Paley
Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.
— John McAfee
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
— John Mortimer
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.
— Marilyn Ferguson
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
— Plato
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
— Moby
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
— David Joseph Schwartz
To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
— David Joseph Schwartz
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
— Dustin Hoffman
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
— Natan Sharansky
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
— Max Baer
Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.
— Brennan Manning
Fear is really powerful it's really useful to me. 
— James McAvoy
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.
— Al Sharpton
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
— Paramahansa Yogananda
I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
— Canelo Alvarez
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
— Munshi Premchand
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
— Johnny Depp
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
— D. H. Lawrence
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
— David Duchovny
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
— Hans Bender
For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
— John Frusciante
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
— Kevin Mitnick
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
— H. P. Lovecraft
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock
Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship or taking the new job or a confrontation - you have to size fear up. 
— Chris Pine
Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
— David Mixner
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
— T. Harv Eker
There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
— Matthew McConaughey
I really believed that fear is contagious.
— Joel Osteen
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.
— Henri Nouwen
In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
— George Foreman
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
— Hannah Kent
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
— Paul Hawken
I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
— Malala Yousafzai
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
— Persius
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.
— George Orwell
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
— Yunus Emre
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
— Napoleon Hill
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
— Maggie Kuhn
I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
— Melissa Etheridge
I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
— Mariska Hargitay
There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
— Eli Roth
We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
— Pat Paulsen
Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
— Mark Gatiss
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
— Penn Jillette
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
— Rudy Giuliani
The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.
— Geoff Johns
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
— Stephen Hawking
The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.
— Gary Zukav
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
— Bernard Beckett
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
— John Cheever
True nobility is exempt from fear.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
— Thomas Carlyle
Fear is the mother of foresight.
— Thomas Hardy
I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
— Britney Spears
I have a fear of being boring.
— Christian Bale
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
— Georges Bernanos
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
— Terry Gross
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
— William Shakespeare
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
— Dale Carnegie
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
— Chauncey Depew
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
— Marian Anderson
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
— Thomas Jefferson
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
— Robert Frost
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
— Douglas Horton
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
— J. G. Ballard
Don't fear change - embrace it.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
— Wayne Dyer
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
— Publilius Syrus
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
— Thomas Jefferson
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
— Gary Busey
Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
— John Robinson
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
— Paul Harris
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
— Black Elk
But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
— Barry Bonds
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
— Andrew Cohen
The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.
— William P. Leahy
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
— Ron Chernow
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
— Jay Chiat
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
— Nat King Cole
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.
— James Bovard
But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
— Reese Witherspoon
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
— Gijs de Vries
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
— Salman Rushdie
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
— Homer
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
— Wilhelm Reich
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
— William Congreve
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
— Arianna Huffington
The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
— Jerome Cady
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
— Jerome Cady
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
— Philip Roth
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
— Warren Buffett
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
— Cornel West
I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
— Kathleen Hanna
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
— Bill Pullman
I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.
— Shalom Harlow
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
— Conan O'Brien
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
— K. D. Lang
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
— Hulk Hogan
I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.
— Penelope Cruz
You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.
— Mariska Hargitay
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
— Martha Beck
I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
— Frank Ocean
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
— Molly Ivins
Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
— Ray Comfort
I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
— Freida Pinto
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
— Peter Diamandis
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
— Harlan Coben
But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.
— Cecily von Ziegesar
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
— Jeffrey Kluger
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
— Viggo Mortensen
I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
— Simon Cowell
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.
— Ann Hood
I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
— Neil Patrick Harris
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
— Dawn French
My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
— Norm MacDonald
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
— Thomas Sowell
Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
— Julian Baggini
For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
— Chris Hardwick
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.
— Joyce Meyer
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
— William S. Burroughs
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
— Jose Saramago
The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.
— Jessica Valenti
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
— Linus Torvalds
I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parking spaces. I don't like to step on the blue lines. I always step over them. I don't know what the deal is. I don't know if it's a fear of injury, or a disrespectful thing, or if I just don't want to think about something like that happening.
— Chantal Sutherland
Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.
— Tony McCoy
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
— Richard Jefferies
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.
— Julia Glass
The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's race can, and often should, be used as a tool for better diagnoses and treatment.
— Michael Specter
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
— P. J. O'Rourke
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
— Joyce Meyer
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
— Zig Ziglar
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
— Douglas Coupland
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
— Kate Winslet
Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
— Buzz Aldrin
When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.
— Marilyn Manson
My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
— John Lydon
If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.
— Jason Statham
Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
— Sandra Bullock
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
— Thomas Carlyle
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
— Billy Corgan
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
— Sophocles
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
— George W. Bush
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
— Martha Beck
People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
— Anthony Bourdain
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
— Ovid
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
— Ovid
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
— Jesse Jackson
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
— Sam Shepard
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
— Eric Hoffer
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
— Eric Hoffer
Fear clogs faith liberates. 
— Elbert Hubbard
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
— Hugh Grant
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
— Emile M. Cioran
You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.
— Sharon Stone
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.
— Michele Bachmann
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
— Ben Stein
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.
— Dylan Moran
As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
— Beth Ditto
I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.
— Robert Winston
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
— Virgil
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
— Eric Cantona
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
— Laura Linney
The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
— Tullian Tchividjian
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
— Jack Nicholson
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
— Anton Chekhov
Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.
— David Chang
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
— J. G. Ballard
I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
— Marlee Matlin
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
— Publilius Syrus
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
— Tom Robbins
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
— James Thurber
I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.
— Joaquin Phoenix
I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
— James D. Watson
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
— Desiderius Erasmus
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
— Anatole France
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.
— Tatiana Maslany
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
— Laura Schlessinger
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.
— Ratan Tata
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
— Abu Bakr
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
— Calvin Klein
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
— Mignon McLaughlin
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
— Keith Richards
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
— Norman Borlaug
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
— Sean Connery
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. 
— Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
— Cyril Connolly