Fear Control Quotes

#1. If we let fear control our decision making we always make the wrong decision.

Butch Bellah

#2. There's nothing wrong with being afraid. Everyone feels fear. But the day you let your fear control you is the day you stop living.

Samantha Towle

#3. I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Erica Jong

#4. That's not being afraid. Being afraid is when you let fear control your life, let it stop you from doing what you want. When you're afraid, but you look your fear in the eye and live, that's courageous. And

Vi Keeland

#5. ...the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.

Sam Storms

#6. Being afraid is when you let fear control your life, let it stop you from doing what you want. When you're afraid, but you look your fear in the eye and live, that's courageous.

Vi Keeland

#7. It was alright to be afraid of something, as long as you didn't let the fear control you.

Katie MacAlister

#8. True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions.

~ from the book "Do Hard Things

Alex Brett Harris

#9. The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so

Gavin De Becker

#10. When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Deepak Chopra

#11. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

Victor LaValle

#12. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

Toks Olagundoye

#13. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

Mike Tyson

#14. Everyone would fear her again. And love her, of course. Mrs Pincent needed to be loved as much as wanted to be feared-to her they were two sides of the same coin. Both gave her total control.

Gemma Malley

#15. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. Confidence is not allowing your fear of weaknesses and limitations to hold you back but to take control of your weakness and limitation.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#17. I think the main benefit is that much of the traditional parenting that's being carried out today is so fear based and while the parent thinks they're in control they're really being ruled by fear. Everything is connected to fear.

Shefali Tsabary

#18. A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

Lauren Groff

#19. Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.

Alexander Lowen

#20. This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.

Rachel Hartman

#21. Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

Greg Palast

#22. I know people have very little control on an airplane, and that exacerbates the fear of flying. As you probably know, flying is a lot safer than driving. If you think of the thousands of take-offs and landings every day--and the miniscule amount of crashes--that has to put your mind at ease.

Wendy Sue Knecht

#23. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.

Ramananda Prasad

#24. Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

E.F. Schumacher

#25. Rage can easily convert to hatred. There is a wish to control the bad object in order to avoid persecution or fear. This control is achieved by the development of obsessive control mechanisms, which psychopathologically regulate the repression of aggression in such an individual.

Sam Vaknin

#26. Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain ... surrounded by things ... we imagine are subject to our control.

Wayne Muller

#27. When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.

B.A. Gabrielle

#28. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

Gary Zukav

#29. I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#30. What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.

Terry Tempest Williams

#31. I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.

Caroline Myss

#32. I realize that it isn't very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch , or control.

Fred Rogers

#33. There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don't realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender.

Rick Warren

#34. Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

Prentice Mulford

#35. Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.

Abhijit Naskar

#36. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.

F.D. Lee

#38. One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

Robert Kiyosaki

#39. When we renounce our fear of life and give up trying to have it under our control - that is, when we acknowledge our contingency and utter dependence on God - then God comes to us and turns us toward Himself.

Donald Spoto

#40. The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.

Charles Eisenstein

#41. Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.

Larry Burkett

#42. The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. I wanted control over her body as I've never wanted anything before. But she wouldn't. Not this girl. No time. Got to get to work. Got to argue. Got to talk about fear.

C.D. Reiss

#44. YODA: But mind the dark side.
Anger, fear, aggression
from
The dark side are they.
Easily they flow,
Quick to join you in a fight.
Aye, they do not fail!
Once on the dark path,
Forever shall not control
Thy destiny, Luke.

Ian Doescher

#45. Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Michael Treanor

#46. Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.

Tessa Afshar

#47. You think so logically ... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically ... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth ...

John Geddes

#48. However, letting yourself be driven by fear, denying the realities around you, or trying to control the unknown only undermines your confidence.

Bob Rosen

#49. In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

Michael Leunig

#50. I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

Taylor Swift

#51. For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.

Christopher Pike

#52. But sex ... that was the opposite of control. There were emotions, and attraction, and that pesky other person that just had to be involved. Not my idea of fun.

Cora Carmack

#53. But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

Veronica Roth

#54. You control an unruly dog with a chain ... or a cage. Never underestimate fear" - Heinrich gestured angrily at Roosevelt - "or the men who would capitalize on it to get what they want." "You are such a pessimist. This is America. Nothing like that could ever happen here.

Larry Correia

#55. Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism - the politics of fear.

Graham E. Fuller

#56. My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Fay Weldon

#57. 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

#58. Diplomacy, Democracy, and parenting are very much the same. It's an act of creating and maintaining control over people without them becoming aware of it while rousing their allegiance through fear or manipulation to protect your right to continue taking advantage of them and their loyalty.

Mitch Alexander

#59. One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

Robin Hobb

#60. Three things to give up to be happier:
1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize.
2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment.
3. Give up the desire to impress and control others.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether.

A.J. Darkholme

#62. The best way to overcome your fear is to stay in control.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

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

Angeles Arrien

#64. In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what's about to happen. When you feel helpless, you're far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

Chris Hadfield

#65. The fears you don't face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.

Wayne Dyer

#66. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Paulo Coelho

#67. Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave ... gets over it.

Rickson Gracie

#68. And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

James Frey

#69. To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

E'yen A. Gardner

#70. Social control is best managed through fear.

Michael Crichton

#71. When you let go of fear and the need to control, you'll experience how mysterious, sacred, and interesting Life can be.

Melody Beattie

#72. Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

Peter Watts

#73. It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

Iyanla Vanzant

#74. Freedom from fear's consuming control over us hinges upon our honestly dealing with what our overwhelming fears are specifically about and then coming to terms with those tedious, often emotionally driven details.

Connie Kerbs

#75. Now I hoard knowledge out of fear. I figure the more I know, the more I'll be able to control a situation and keep from getting hurt again.

Damien Echols

#76. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.

Kathryn Perez

#77. Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.

Frederick Lenz

#78. One who seeks to control others is one who suffers from the affliction of fear.

T.F. Hodge

#79. Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#80. When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#81. Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.

Shannon L. Alder

#82. Do not be afraid. Fear is how they control you. There's so much in the world you don't have to be afraid of, if you would only open your eyes.

Leigh Bardugo

#83. When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

Byron Katie

#84. If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#85. Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#86. My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

Mamnoon Hussain

#87. I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Javier Bardem

#88. I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Lynda Barry

#89. Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

David Gemmell

#90. When the City of Goleta incorporated about 10 years ago, its founders took pains to exclude Isla Vista from the boundaries for fear that UCSB students would become enfranchised, take over the government, and enact some form of rent control.

Anonymous

#91. Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.

Elliot Kay

#92. I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

Erin Morgenstern

#93. Horror movies in a sense are about the things that you cannot control, cannot define and the things that you are afraid of, and that is what the boogey man is. The boogey man doesn't have a backstory, he is just the thing you fear and I think it is important to celebrate that aspect of horror.

Larry Fessenden

#94. Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.

David Richo

#95. Man's mastery over nature, then, is a mastery which has less and less control over itself ... A world where techniques are paramount is a world given over to desire and fear; because every technique is there to serve some desire or fear.2 - Gabriel Marcel

Stephen Batchelor

#96. All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.

Bryant McGill

#97. In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

Cynthia Breazeal

#98. A charismatic leader doesn't use fear and guilt in order to control his team. He will rely on his positive outlook that's going to make people follow him happily.

Jack Robinson

#99. ...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

#100. a parallel world than a religious kind of afterlife. In fact, he was especially critical of religious leaders, whom Twain felt had been using the fear of death and threats of hell to control the minds of their followers. Over the Ouija board, Twain told Hutchings:

Richard Bullivant