Fear quotes

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.” Warren Buffett

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” Warren Buffett

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” Ernest Hemingway

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.” Jim Morrison

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” Jim Morrison

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” Jim Morrison

“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.” Jim Morrison

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” William James

“Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.” Stephen King

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” Clive Staples Lewis

“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.” Abraham Maslow

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” Douglas MacArthur

“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.” Douglas MacArthur

“Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.” Douglas MacArthur

“People living deeply have no fear of death.” Anais Nin

“On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.” Barack Obama

“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.” Henry Miller

“There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.” Henry Miller

“When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.” Horace Mann

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.” Horace Mann

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“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

“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.” Joel Osteen