Fear Quotes

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

Every day do something that frightens you.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.

We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

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.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.