Top 100 A Fear Quotes
#1. Nothing gives you a fear flashback like a bunch of strangers cheering in surprise that you're not dead.
Tina Fey
#2. It's good to have a fear of heights. I mean, it's kind of crazy not to because if you just lean out a little bit and there's a gust of wind or somebody bumps you or something and you fall, you're splat.
Chris Hadfield
#3. Now, I can't blame that completely on a love for books. It partly had to do with a fear of people. I didn't know how to talk to people or even how to look 'em in the eye. That's what books gave me. An escape from people; something to stand in between me and them.
Melanie Shawn
#4. When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.
Edward T. Welch
#5. My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!
Bella Thorne
#6. More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!
Geoffrey Rush
#7. What happened to you was done out of a fear of extinction, and while that doesn't make it excusable, it at least makes it understandable.
Dan Wells
#8. All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.
Otto Penzler
#9. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
#10. I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.
John C. Danforth
#11. 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
#12. They were frightened, no question, but they were not afraid of me. It was a fear of messing up and having to face themselves again, and facing the world, and the likes of you.
Markus Zusak
#13. At first I thought it was a fear of failure. Now I think you're afraid to succeed.
Jaci Burton
#14. Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief; and that to avoid looking into the support of any belief from a fear that it may turn out rotten is quite as immoral as it is disadvantageous.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#15. I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
Freida Pinto
#16. Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly Parton
#17. I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
George Carlin
#18. 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
#19. A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others.
Miguel Ruiz
#21. A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.
Kim Edwards
#23. When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.
Andy Daly
#24. My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
Natan Sharansky
#25. At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.
Leonard Gardner
#26. I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
Ira Sachs
#27. His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary.
D.T. Max
#28. 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
#29. Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there.
Jacqueline Bisset
#30. Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.
Mario Stinger
#31. The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
Natalia Ginzburg
#32. There is always a fear that i'll be in Europe somewhere, and this little blue-eyed kid would come over to me with his mom and go, "dada, dada".
Caleb Followill
#33. Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Natan Sharansky
#34. Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Natan Sharansky
#35. People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky
#36. I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
Jenny Eclair
#37. I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.
David Mackay
#38. You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.
Chris Hadfield
#39. We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death - the fear of not reaching the top.
Mike Mullane
#40. At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.
Donald L. Hicks
#41. I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.
Kesha
#42. A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.
Robin Sharma
#43. When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
Ben Marcus
#44. There is a fear of God that adoration enfolds with arms of thanks. It acknowledges the absolute power of the Creator and the inconsequence of man. This holy and reverent fear is the beginning of wisdom, for it is wise to know one's place in this world...and in the next.
Cheryl Zelenka
#45. I had turned myself inside out working on the house, and had come to love it; at least, I supposed I loved it. Maybe it wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.
Dee Williams
#46. Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.
Noel Fielding
#47. 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
#48. Writing is not a competition, or a fear. Writing is an art, a passion, a love.
Kirsty-Anne Still
#49. Our world is becoming more busy and noisy.
We are pushing silence out of our lives at a rate that suggests a fear of what it has to say to us about ourselves.
John O'Donohue
#50. I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
Lara Jean Chorostecki
#51. The Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear.
Purushothaman Kollam
#52. There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir
#53. I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt.
Naomi Campbell
#54. There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.
Richard Jackson
#55. There is a fine line between a carefree spirit and a fear of failure
Brad Meltzer
#56. Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?
Christina Engela
#57. I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.
Alice Sebold
#58. There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules.
Anthony Doerr
#59. However, sexual anorexics do have a definite profile that separates them from the larger population of those having difficulty being sexual: They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human.
Patrick J. Carnes
#60. You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.
Charlie Day
#61. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.
Frederick Lenz
#62. A fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.
James Hollis
#63. People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.
Dominic Monaghan
#64. I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.
Jim Davis
#65. What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
John Searles
#66. When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
Without a fear of evil yet to come.
Ovid
#67. Every choice we make is either a grwoth choice or a fear choice.
Brian Morton
#68. To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams
#69. Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies.
I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear.
Carrie Jones
#70. I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
Gary Kemp
#71. Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.
Angela Carter
#72. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
John Donne
#73. A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.
T Jay Taylor
#74. They all told me I had a fear of intimacy, but I vehemently disagreed; I craved intimacy like a crack addict.
The problem was that I craved intimacy to the same burning degree that I detested commitment.
Being a statue was such a perfect job.
Amanda Palmer
#75. I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.
David Duchovny
#76. Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.
Carl Sagan
#77. I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.
Penelope Cruz
#78. Weaponry is a fear-raising idea.
Toba Beta
#79. I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
Sally Mann
#80. Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.
April WIlliams
#81. With cities, it is as if with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.
Italo Calvino
#82. You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.
Nicole Kidman
#83. People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#84. Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil.
Eric Maisel
#85. An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.
Henry Mintzberg
#86. There's a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.
Heather Matarazzo
#87. When the fear of losing money and failing becomes too painful inside, a fear we both have, he chooses to seek security and I choose to seek freedom.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#88. Nothing natural could cause this kind of fear. It goes beyond a fear of physical harm and into the realm of mental and spiritual. Like the fear of losing your sanity, of losing your soul.
Susan Ee
#89. Claritypoint: A fear-based philosophy about life (seeing life as a testing center) can prevent you from seeing yourself and situations accurately.- A fear of failing skews your perspective and distracts you from learning and loving.
Kimberly Giles
#90. A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.
Rollo May
#91. It's not a fear.Kacey drank her wine faster."It's a scary movie!" "It's Alice in Wonderland.
Rachel Van Dyken
#92. A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
Sigmund Freud
#93. ...this is a way of handling a fear of losing control. One way - which is perhaps not the best way - to try and regain control is to talk, talk, talk.
Love Professor - to Jennifer
Jennifer Cox
#94. [Hadley] "I have a fear of mayo, so I've actually gotten pretty good at it over the years."
[Oliver] "You have a fear of mayo?"
She nods again."It's in my top three or four."
"What are the others?" he asks with a grin. "I mean what could possibly be worse than mayonnaise.
Jennifer E. Smith
#95. They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little or nothing, for we are all of us in the same predicament through life; each with a fear and a hope from childhood to death.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#96. The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.
Frank Shorter
#97. That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.
Gloria Steinem
#98. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God).
Edward T. Welch
#99. Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
Bennett Cerf
#100. Really, why? You're a household name, you still have a fear of public speaking?" "Well, I am human. Just because I'm a household name doesn't mean anything. It actually makes things even worse in my opinion.
India T. Norfleet
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