1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
Ron Chernow

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
Ron Chernow

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
James Bovard

Action conquers fear.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
Andy Murray

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
Andy Murray

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

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
Robert Falcon Scott

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
Warren Farrell

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Shane Warne

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
Mary Schmich

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
Michael Morpurgo

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
Mariska Hargitay

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

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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

Fear created the first gods in the world.
Caecilius Statius

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
Patrick Swayze