Controlled By Fear Quotes

#1. Either we are running 'from' what we fear or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. Live your life to the fullest
and never be controlled by fear.
You will help make humanity better
when you stand up to all
injustice done against its children

Timothy Pina

#3. When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne. And at this level of experience one's bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.

James Baldwin

#5. Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#6. Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed.

The Bhagavad Gita

#7. We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

Bernard Werber

#8. Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Fear dismembers and disfigures our perspective of God, making Him seem a powerless pawn controlled by our circumstances. But when we re-member the Lord and re-count His works, we begin to re-form our vision of His greatness in our hearts.

Kris Vallotton

#10. My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.

Pittacus Lore

#11. I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Mary Tyler Moore

#12. She controlled her face and whipped the fear from it. You're just doing it because you're honest, is that it? You're just too sugar sweet to live.

John Steinbeck

#13. I refuse to cut the joy from the lives of others in fear I might lose my own. Only the former is definite, and may be controlled. The latter is up to fate.

Penelope Fletcher

#14. In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Alex Jones

#15. Fear in the biblical sense ... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

Edward T. Welch

#16. All love relationships are controlled by an element of fear - that of acting, or becoming, unworthy of the loved one's approbation.

Sydney J. Harris

#17. Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running 'from' something. Fear harnessed compels us to run 'to' something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?

Dennis Lehane

#19. People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#20. Do not be controlled by your fear of the future. You will only create a negative reality for yourself.

Brea Essex

#21. There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by ... swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Henry Clay