Quotes about Fear

“Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.”

“The thing we fear we bring to pass.”

“I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had.”

“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”

“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.”

“The more we try to control our kids and create who they are and where they're going, the more that will fall apart. That's a dangerous thing. So you need to actually manage the fear and figure out who your kids are. Who do they want to be and how can you help shape that, but not control it.”

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

“Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.”

“My father was strict. He knew how to have a good relationship with Dory Jr. and I. He was our best friend, but we had a lot of fear.”

“The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.”

“Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.”

“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”

“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

“Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.”

“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”

“I think Haig will be foolish, but perhaps not quite as foolish as Kissinger was, because Haig doesn't have the education Kissinger had. Haig is a little more dangerous because, I fear, he believes what he says, whereas I never got that impression from Kissinger.”

“I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.”

“One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“If you fear and you don't admit it, that's when you're lying to yourself.”

“People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'”