Fear Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Harry S. Truman

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Douglas Horton

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

William Jennings Bryan

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Gerald Brenan

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Edward Dahlberg

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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

Ben Okri

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Tecumseh

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Adam Schiff

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

F. H. Bradley

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Bill Owens

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

David Foster Wallace

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Dorothy Thompson

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Robert Jay Lifton

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

William John Wills

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Ron Chernow

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Vita Sackville-West

While there's life, there's fear.

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.

John McCain

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Chanakya

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Jerry Bruckheimer

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Publilius Syrus

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

Keith Miller

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

Edward Kennedy

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

Arianna Huffington

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

Damien Hirst

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Philip Pullman

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Franklin P. Jones

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Robert Evans

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Peter Straub

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

Paul Ryan

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Marcus Garvey

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee