Best Fear Quotes by famous personalities

Fear controls you.

- Jack Kevorkian

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Action conquers fear.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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Fear is the mother of foresight.

- Thomas Hardy

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Fear is excitement without breath.

- Robert Heller

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Cruelty is softened by fear not pity.

- Mason Cooley

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

- David Herbert Lawrence

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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

- Dale Carnegie

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

- Viktor E. Frankl

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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

- Ang Lee

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Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

- Cyril Connolly

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Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

- Shirley MacLaine

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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

- David Guetta

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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

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You've got to kick fear to the side because the payoff is huge.

- Mariska Hargitay

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Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

- Kevin Mitnick

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The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

- James K. Polk

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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

- Maynard James Keenan

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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

- Corrie Ten Boom

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We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

- Warren Farrell

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So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear and then to go for higher causes higher purposes.

- Robert Kiyosaki

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Change creates fear and technology creates change. Sadly most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

- Daniel H. Wilson

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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

- Abraham Maslow

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That might have a lot to do with it but you know I probably don't show fear but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

- Steve Irwin

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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear And none has quite escaped my smile.

- Elinor Wylie

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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

- Huey Newton

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You know sometimes I feel well and vital in the world and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

- Sharon Stone

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Grief has limits whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened but we fear all that possibly may happen.

- Pliny the Elder

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Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me I won't be around them.

- Jeremy Renner

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They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack working 20 hours a day eating fast food.

- Willie Aames

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The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand and they it must be confessed with much fear and trembling.

- Lou Henry Hoover

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My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

- Portia de Rossi

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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

- H. L. Mencken

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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

- Edward Walker

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With their souls of patent leather they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal where they breathe they impose silence of dark rubber and fear of fine sand.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

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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

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The course of this conflict is not known yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear justice and cruelty have always been at war and we know that God is not neutral between them.

- George W. Bush

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In itself homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either a human being without feeling fear restraint or obligation.

- Simone de Beauvoir

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We must have our say not through violence aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

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From too much love of living From hope and fear set free We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Fix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

- Thomas Jefferson

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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways it was everything I ever wanted but when it happened all I felt was total paralysing fear.

- Florence Welch

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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

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The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

- David Icke

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I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians but if that's Christian count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.

- Matthew Fox

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To seek understanding before taking action yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

- Steven Brust

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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment suffering pain fear and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life I found that my worrying stopped.

- Charles Stanley

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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

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You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime because deep down it's not a legitimate regime it doesn't represent the will of the people it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

- Hillary Clinton

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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

- Luc de Clapiers

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When desire dies, fear is born.

- Baltasar Gracian

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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

- Roger Caras

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I have a fear of being boring.

- Christian Bale

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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

- Gary Busey

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Americans have discovered fear.

- Jose Saramago

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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

- Laura Schlessinger

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

- David Hume

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I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

- Helen Reddy

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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

- Cyril Connolly

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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

- Al Yankovic

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Do what you fear and fear disappears.

- David Joseph Schwartz

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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

- Jean de la Bruyere

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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

- Anna Deavere Smith

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Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

- Phil Crosby

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People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

- Henry Louis Gates

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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

- Bear Grylls

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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

- Samuel Daniel

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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

- Drew Barrymore

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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

- Bear Grylls

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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

- Fernando Flores

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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

- Doug Coupland

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I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

- Jeremy Renner

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We fear the thing we want the most.

- Robert Anthony

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I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

- Michelle Obama

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I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

- Olympia Dukakis

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

- Georges Bernanos

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

- Julia Ward Howe

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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

- Manuel Puig

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

- Jean Anouilh

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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

- Adele

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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

- Marilyn Ferguson

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

- Francis Quarles

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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

- Zack Wamp

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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

- Homer

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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

- Arthur Henderson

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

- Dorothy Thompson

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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

- Kathie Lee Gifford

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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

- Patrick J. Kennedy

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Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

- Kenny Rogers

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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

- Anna Quindlen

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I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

- Lionel Blue

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

- Paul Sweeney

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No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

- Brad Henry

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